Hello everyone.
So we have an old infrastructure in which I have some machines to import to our actual environment.
Old environment for virtualization was using KVM. The actual environment we are using VMWare ESX 6.5 with VSphere.
The current issue I am facing is regarding one of the machines we need to import that has the following setup:
- 4 vCPU
- 4Gb RAM
- 4 HD
- Centos 6.3
- LVM configured for the whole environment
I am trying to import by following these steps:
- Convert from img / qcow2 to vmdk on the old system
- Create a new VM on VMWare without any hard disk
- Copy these files to the VMWare datastore folder previously created
- Clone theses disks to vmdk format with vmkfstools
- Change ddb.adapterType from IDE to lsilogic
- Boot the VM on VMWare
After this, my expectation was that the system would boot. What does happen is that it freezes before even show the boot menu from GRUB.
I booted with a centos installer cd to the rescue system and the volumes can mount with no issues. From there, I tried to repair / reinstall the initramfs, reinstall grub, fsck to the volumes.
I always end up with the infamous freeze when trying to boot.
What am I forgetting or what should I do differently?
Does anyone have an idea or some advice?
Many thanks in advance.