Import from VMware

olivierlambert

Let's see first if it works in cold migration

Olest

Cold migration worked without errors

But it cannot boot - any idea?

olivierlambert

Yes: /dev/sda2 doesn't exist anymore, it's likely /dev/xvda2 instead, since it's using Xen (assuming you have PV drivers in such old CentOS version)

Olest

Hard to restore the VM at VMware as the migration in XO broke the VM.
Updated to Centos 5.11 and halted it manually before migration and this time it can boot fine.

BUT cold migration still broke the VM on VMware.

olivierlambert

It's like because of a lock file not released

Olest

No lock files to find but left for 30 min and when I came back the error was gone...

olivierlambert

Probably a timer on the lock on VMware side. Since the transfer finished, the lock was released in the end after some time.

Olest

Looks like PowerOffVM_Task is not supported on ESXI Free.
Maybe you could read the ESXI license information and disable warm migration for ESXI Free.
Or ask user to shutdown VM when ready. Right now it just hang waiting for VM to shutdown.

olivierlambert

That's interesting @florent ?

florent

@Olest
that's a nice catch, every day I discover new limits of the vmware licensing . At least we could catch the error and show something useful to the user

DustinB

@florent said in Import from VMware:

@Olest
that's a nice catch, every day I discover new limits of the vmware licensing . At least we could catch the error and show something useful to the user

Just wait, everything free from VMWare is going away, so it'll just be the assumption that if you should be able to do it, you won't be able to.