Everyone,

My final solution to the moving a Centos 7 machine to VMWare turned out to be 
the use of
vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0.1 that has to be executed on a Windows 
machine.  I ran
this product on a kvm guest Windows 10 machine and it worked very well.  The 
transfer had
to be done while the Centos 7 machine was booted.  I have used this now to 
transfer a kvm
guest Centos 7 machine and a physical machine Centos 7 both to VMWare.

There was a problem when I booted both machines that occurred at the beginning 
of the boot
process before the kernel was accepted.  The screen was filed with error 
messages which
stated repetitively :

"error: can't find command ':'"

I had to enter a <Cr> several times to bypass the error messages and the the 
boot proceed
normally. 

I found :
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/p2v-redhat-error-can-t-find-command/td-p/497444

Apparently the VMWare converter has a bug in it that adds ": " to the beginning 
of a line
that starts with "#" in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

All I needed to do was to edit grub.cfg and  remove the ": " that was present 
in many of
the lines that had previously been commented.  

A reboot was normal.

If any of you find a way to do this task with Linux I would surely like to hear 
from you,
but if you are looking for a way to make a migration from a physical machine or 
guest
machine to VMWare this worked well.  

Greg Ennis






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