[PVE-User] Problems migrating Vmware Solaris 9 to Proxmox

[claudio.prono at atpss.net]

Il 27/03/2012 17.23, Alessandro Briosi ha scritto:

> >
> > Il 27/03/2012 16:25, Antonio Sanguigni ha scritto:
>> >> 2012/3/27 claudio.prono at atpss.net<claudio.prono at atpss.net>:
>>> >>> Hello to all,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I am trying to migrate a Vmware machine with Solaris 9 to Proxmox,
>>> >>> but i
>>> >>> have a problem: every time the migrated disk is not bootable.
>> >>
>>> >>> Disk /dev/hda: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
>>> >>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors
>>> >>> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>>> >>> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>>> >>>
>>> >>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>> >>> /dev/hda1   *        1008     8388575     4193784   82  Linux swap /
>>> >>> Solaris
>>> >>> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>>> >>>      phys=(1022, 254, 63) logical=(0, 16, 1)
>>> >>> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>>> >>>      phys=(1022, 254, 63) logical=(522, 41, 63)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Some hints about this?
>> >>
>> >> I don't know about the errors but it seems this is a swap partition of
>> >> 4 gb :O. Are you sure did you clone the right disk ?
>> >>
>> >> Antonio
>> >>
> >
> > No the partition type is correct (as you see the partition is Linux
> > swap / Solaris)
> >
> > The problem here I think it's the fact that probably linux isn't
> > handling the hard disk correctly and the produced image is missing the
> > x86 boot sector from the disk. (at least I suppose it's not the sparc
> > version :P )
> > Solaris 9 is pretty old and I don't know if it will run on KVM.
> >
> > I see failed reports to install it on kvm on the internet, also a 4GB
> > drive is very little, but I see you are migrating very old systems.
> >
> > If I had to do such a migration I'd go the system upgrade way, but that
> > depends on what do that OS have installed.
> >
> >
Thank you for the answer, but unfortunately i can't do a system upgrade,
because that systems are used to explain vulnerabilities on services and
if i upgrade them this can't work anymore... But now i realize the migration
Proxmox can be a bad problem... Workin on it...

Claudio.



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