A user called user1 with a password is taken for this example. Click View source details to view details of your remote Linux machine which must be converted to a VMware virtual machine. Hit Next to continue and switch to the next step. Sometimes the converter cannot run commands on your remote Linux machine and displays the warning: Unable to query the live Linux source machine.
Where user1 is the name of our user. You need to enter your user name. Destination System. Select the destination system. By default, the destination type is defined as VMware Infrastructure virtual machine if you are converting a physical Linux machine, and this is the only available option for converting a physical Linux machine to a VMware VM.
If your ESXi host on which you want to run the converted VM is managed by vCenter, select the IP address of your vCenter Server and define the credentials of vCenter administrator or another user who has administrative privileges for managing vCenter Server. Destination Virtual Machine. Select the datacenter to store the virtual machine and enter the name for the target VM, for example, Ubuntuvm.
Destination Location. Select an ESXi host to run the virtual machine and a datastore to store virtual machine files. You can also select the virtual machine version. By default, the highest supported virtual machine version is selected.
In this case, it is version 13 because ESXi 6. On this step, you can edit different conversion options. Data to copy. You can select all volumes or custom volumes to copy and select the virtual disk provisioning type thick or thin provisioning.
It is also possible to store each virtual disk on a different datastore. This option is used to optimize the alignment of disk partitions. Set the necessary amount of memory for the destination VM on the Memory tab. Set the disk controller, the number of processors and processor cores in the Other tab.
Select the number of virtual network adapters to connect to a virtual machine. Then select the virtual network to which each network adapter must be connected, network controller type and tick the Connect at power-on checkbox if needed.
Advanced options. Post-conversion settings are located in this section. In our case, for converting a physical Linux server to a VMware virtual machine, only the Reconfigure destination virtual machine option is available. This option is used to configure the boot loader, update drivers used by the operating system to be more optimized for running a VM in the VMware virtual environment with the appropriate virtual hardware.
Helper VM network. The helper VM must have access via the network to the source physical machine running Linux in order to clone all files of the source machine. Check all conversion settings for your P2V Linux conversion and if everything is correct, hit Finish to start the conversion process.
Wait until the conversion process is finished. The duration of conversion depends on the amount of data stored on disks of the source Linux machine. If you try to start the Linux virtual machine after conversion, you will get the error: Error loading operating system.
You need to boot from the Ubuntu installation medium and use it as a rescue disk. In our example, we use the Ubuntu As an alternative, you can change the boot order once by pressing Esc instead of F2 right after starting a VM. After booting from the Ubuntu installation medium, select Try Ubuntu on the Welcome screen. In our example, the simplest disk partitioning scheme is used for Ubuntu installed on the physical machine. Now you can see which partition is used to boot Linux the boot flag is present in that string.
After that, you can quit parted. Note: If you use a manual partitioning scheme and a separate boot partition to boot Linux, your list of partitions would be different, but you should similarly find the partition with the boot flag. Create the directory on the RAM disk and mount the partitions used by Ubuntu.
If Ubuntu is installed on a single partition, use commands like:. Note: If Ubuntu is using multiple partitions, create separate directories, and mount each partition to the appropriate directory:. Check the disk identifier for each disk partition.
Remember this new UUID. Hence, we must change b-e9abdae-afe3ab0a to dd05b02cecec8c2f8b. Note: If your Linux is using multiple partitions, you may need to change the UUID value for other partitions or just define them as sda2 , sda3 , sdb1 , sdb2 etc. After converting a physical Linux machine to a virtual machine, the UUID of the disk has been changed on the destination VM and, for this reason, the boot loader GRUB cannot boot from the necessary partition.
In our case, we edit the grub. Replace the old UUID with the new one. The UUID occurs several times in the configuration file and editing this value manually is not convenient. The text editor vim allows you to do automatic replacement of the source text with the target text by using the command:.
Now you have to reinstall GRUB to the boot loader to the same directory where the boot loader was installed before. Unfortunately, the VMware converter Linux version is not available but if you want to convert your physical Linux server to a VMware VM by using only Linux machines, you should familiarize with the second P2V Linux conversion method.
With our comprehensive backup solution made for IT Pros you can also do much more:. EFI was our main complication as the disk was larger than 2TB. We needed EFI compatibility. Tim Butterly, LuckyVitamin. With its comprehensive and comprehensible wizards and task manager, VMware Converter converts virtual machines faster, with fewer manual steps required, and fewer source hardware limitations than other methods.
With its ability to perform hot cloning, VMware Converter can convert a virtual machine with no downtime on the source physical machine. It has the following enhancements:. Version 3. It contains bug fixes described in Resolved Issues and a known issue described in Known Issues.
It contains bug fixes described in Resolved Issues, and also incorporates the following new features:. Converter supports restoring Consolidated Backup images of any guest operating system type. These limitations include:. VMware Converter provides an experimental command line interface for migrations VMware provides p2vTool as a tool for migrating physical and virtual source machines with a command line interface CLI. Support for this CLI is Experimental. You need an Enterprise license to use p2vTool to migrate machines.
The one exception is restoring a VMware Consolidated Backup image; in this case p2vTool can execute the query, verify, import, and postprocess options without needing a license if it detects that the source is a VCB image. In moving from P2V Assistant to VMware Converter, you see more options and abilities in migrating physical machines, along with the new ability to migrate virtual machines.
In moving from Virtual Machine Importer to VMware Converter, you see more options and abilities in migrating virtual machines, along with the new ability to convert physical machines. The Converter installer uninstalls previously installed versions of Converter such as 3. All target operating systems should have the latest patches available from Microsoft as of the release of this product. Select Workstation 4. After the import is complete, use vmkfstools on the target ESX machine to import the resulting Workstation 4.
Only Workstation 5. Support for the following guest operating systems is Experimental. VMware Converter 3 can clone source images containing these operating systems, but the destination virtual machine may or may not work without additional configuration after import. In particular, if the source image contains unsupported hardware, you might need to modify the configuration of the destination virtual machine before using it:.
New Scheduled tasks are not performed after physical to virtual hot cloning of Windows systems After performing a physical to virtual conversion, the account context of scheduled tasks is not preserved when the system is rebooted and the task associated with a specific user account is started at logon.
Workaround: In Converter 3. This conversion scenario is not supported. New When you resize disks to 'Min size' in the Converter wizard, the resulting new disk size is slightly larger If you hot clone a physical source machine and specify Min size for the source data, the actual disk size created is approximately 10 percent larger than the displayed minimum size.
Workaround: Manually configure the static IP settings. New Task fails for remote Windows source machine when you navigate back and forth in the Conversion wizard When all of the following circumstances exist, the physical source machine does not reboot:. New Source virtual machine networks are not reflected in the default networks of the OVF package When you create an OVF virtual appliance, the networks in the source virtual machine are not reflected in the default networks of the OVF package.
Instead, Converter includes one default network, VMNetwork. You can edit the Network section on the virtual appliance Details page to add more networks if required. FAT file systems do not support files greater than 2GB. New System Restore checkpoints are not removed in target virtual machine When performing block-level, volume-based cloning of a VMware virtual machine ESX Server or Workstation , regardless of whether you selected the Remove all System Restore checkpoints option in the Conversion wizard, these checkpoints are not removed in the target virtual machine.
Workaround: In the source virtual machine, grant everyone full control of the System Volume Information folder:. New Non-ASCII virtual machine names during cold clone cause Converter to quit with an error message During cold cloning, if you use non-ASCII characters for target virtual machine names, although it appears that the import is progressing, Converter issues an error message and quits. New The 'Create a separate disk for each volume' option is not recommended for multi-boot systems The Create a separate disk for each volume option on the Source Data page of the Conversion wizard does not support multi-boot systems.
If you clone a physical or virtual machine that has a multi-boot configuration, every system volume except for the recognized system volume is placed on a new disk. This prevents the target virtual machine from booting into any of the additional system volumes. Workaround: Deselect additional system volumes so they are not cloned in the target virtual machine.
New OVA file is overwritten if an. If, however, the existing. The source virtual machine does not have the appropriate drivers A log file error message such as 'Unable to find symmpi. Simultaneous conversions for large environments.
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EFI was our main complication as the disk was larger than 2TB. We needed EFI compatibility.
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