{"id":10445,"date":"2010-02-25T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10445"},"modified":"2010-02-25T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:16:00","slug":"crazy-idea-use-vmware-for-hyper-v-p2v-of-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10445","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Idea \u2013 Use VMware for Hyper-V P2V of Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted<\/a> a while back about how to P2V convert a physical Linux machine to a Hyper-V virtual machine.\u00a0 I really only looked at nasty complicated solutions that required knowing Linux.\u00a0 You can P2V Windows machines using Virtual Machine Manager<\/a> but not Linux machines.<\/p>\n

Some conversations last week at the summit revealed an alternative that I really should have thought of.\u00a0 It\u2019s not NDA stuff.<\/p>\n

You can use the free VMware vCenter Converter<\/a> to P2V a Linux VM.\u00a0 That creates a VMware VM with a VMDK disk file.\u00a0 The downside is that it appears that the target must be VMware ESX, ESXi, Workstation or Player<\/span> (See below comment).<\/p>\n

Now, you can use a tool to convert the VMDK to a Microsoft VHD disk file, e.g. VMDK2VHD<\/a>.\u00a0 Now you have a disk you can attach to a Hyper-V VM and boot from.\u00a0 You can then install your integration components which are supported on RHEL and SLES.\u00a0 They\u2019ll install on other distros but are not MS supported.<\/p>\n

At least, that\u2019s the theory.\u00a0 I\u2019ve not tried this.\u00a0 It feels like it\u2019ll work.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame that a Linux tool has to be used for this.\u00a0 It\u2019ll look bad for a MS partner consultant who has sold a client on the idea of Microsoft virtualisation to break out a VMware tool for a P2V of Linux VM\u2019s.\u00a0 Sure, they\u2019ll be the majority of VM\u2019s but there\u2019s still a good number of them out there.<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: System Center<\/a>,VMM<\/a>,Hyper-V<\/a>,Linux<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted a while back about how to P2V convert a physical Linux machine to a Hyper-V virtual machine.\u00a0 I really only looked at nasty complicated solutions that required knowing Linux.\u00a0 You can P2V Windows machines using Virtual Machine Manager but not Linux machines. Some conversations last week at the summit revealed an alternative that … Continue reading “Crazy Idea \u2013 Use VMware for Hyper-V P2V of Linux”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,184,193,196],"class_list":["post-10445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-linux","tag-system-center","tag-vmm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}