[olug] vmware P2V Centos 5.4

[Kevin]

Can you boot the virtual environment using an ISO and check
/var/log/messages or similar log files? Either that or perform a V2P
migration and do similarly?

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Boot into single user mode and use chkconfig off any extra services....
> might help.
>
> On Thursday, August 23, 2012, Hurley, Rod <RHurley at tenaska.com> wrote:
>> When you did the p2v, did you remember to uninstall any hardware junk
> that normally blows up P2V?  Software like Dell OpenManage, HP Insight, IBM
> Director, etc that is designed for hardware support often cause havoc with
> the VM after the P2V process, and usually it's too late to fix it because
> it won't boot.  I uninstall as much as I can stand prior to the P2V process.
>>
>> IF this is not the issue, I don't have any other tips for you, per se.
>>
>> Rod
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Justin Reiners
>> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:37 PM
>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
>> Subject: [olug] vmware P2V Centos 5.4
>>
>> I am trying to convert 2 physical 5.4 boxes to run on our VMWare platform
> and I am having a hell of a time, anyone have any tricks? it dies when it
>  is booting up saying something tried to kill init. any ideas?
>>
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