Our First V.I.P.
July 11th, 2007 , 8:55
Yes folks after many months of hard work at the Hippy Factory (other wise known as the place where i work). We have are fist V.I.P thats Virtual In-house Penguin. Since the start of the year we (in an office IT team) have been trailing and experimenting with visualization using vmware’s vi3 (this product was chosen after a review and trail of many products last year).
Yesterday we finished are first move of a linux based wiki system from a physical machine to a full virtual machine. I would how ever like to point out at this time that we were unable to us any of the P2V tools on the market to accomplish this, be they provided by vmware, plate spin, ghost or various home brew scripts and linux open source tools.
While most of these tools cope ok with windows hardly any coupe with a linux base system (plate spin came closest but chocked on 64 bit process. So the advice I would give to people at the moment is if you wish to virtulize and have existing linux base system go for a re-install.
Most of the P2V products on the market at the moment can not cope with the linux for various reasons, some fail because of lvm some just failed and 64 bit killed others, and unless you have some very good knowable linux hackers around the reinstall option will be more cost effective in the short term, and a good excuse to upgrade.
ps
If any one else would like to leave some name of tools to try i will give it a go.
As we say in BSAC plan the P2V P2V the plan 🙂
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