Migrated Rocky Linux -8 VM from VMWare to XCP-ng and now will not boot
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Hi Team
I am new to XCP-ng and am on the latest release.
Migrated Rocky Linux VM from VMWare to XCP-ng using the import option in XO and now will not boot.
It shows the initial rocky Linux banner for more than 3 minutes and finally comes to the root prompt and only command I can run is the list "ls -l"Request the experts to guide me here.
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@venkatm Which firmware is the VM using to boot, BIOS or UEFI? Are you ending up in the dracut emergency shell?
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Used UEFI for booting. This is a working VM in VMware platform.
Yes its going to safe mode -
Hi.
Can you try to have a VM setup within XenOrchestra and then use Clonezilla to get the machine over?
Power down the Rocky Linux VM, boot from a Clonezilla ISO and do the same thing on a VM in XOA.You should make sure to have at least the same or a little greater amount of storage on the new VM on XOA
as it was on the VMWare platform before starting the clone.Just to have a fallback option in case the XOA import mechanism has a problem.
Best regards,
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It's likely because your Rocky, during install, did not add the Xen PV drivers. For example in here, before migrating: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/installation/migrate-to-xcp-ng/#-from-kvm-libvirt
