Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-15 Thread Calabaza
El vie., 15 feb. 2019 a las 13:48, Adam Weremczuk () escribió: > > I've investigated a bit more and it actually has something to with EFI > rather than Debian version. I think the same, take a look a this wiki: [0] https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Force_grub-efi_installation_to_the_removable_media_p

Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-15 Thread Adam Weremczuk
I've investigated a bit more and it actually has something to with EFI rather than Debian version. This Debian 9 clones fine: Model: IBM ServeRAID M5014 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 998GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number  Start   End Size    File

Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-15 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hi Calbaza, I'm not surprised it works for Debian 8 (released in 2015) as the tool officially supports Ubuntu 16 (released in 2016). It also works like a charm for Debian 7 (2013) but not Debian 9 (2017). All my VMs run as version 11 too. It fails with the same error when tried against 3 dif

Guillermo -> Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-15 Thread deb
On 2/15/2019 10:38 AM, Calabaza wrote: I'm a Spanish speaker, sorry for my bad English. -- Guillermo Galeano Fernández Your English (and help) are excellent Guillermo. I'm sure that the majority of others could not help in Spanish, were the situations reversed. Thank you!

Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-15 Thread Calabaza
El mié., 13 feb. 2019 a las 11:36, Adam Weremczuk () escribió: > > Forgot to mention the source server was up and running the entire time, > no down time. > > > On 13/02/19 14:06, Alexandre GRIVEAUX wrote: > > It's hard to beat 20-30 seconds it takes to click and type into VMware > > Converter and

Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-13 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Forgot to mention the source server was up and running the entire time, no down time. On 13/02/19 14:06, Alexandre GRIVEAUX wrote: It's hard to beat 20-30 seconds it takes to click and type into VMware Converter and leave it running. It works well for Debian 7, probably 8 as well but not 9 :(

Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-13 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Short answer - because it will take significantly longer and potentially lead to more errors. Especially if I have a number of servers with different structures and purposes. It's hard to beat 20-30 seconds it takes to click and type into VMware Converter and leave it running. It works well f

Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-13 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Le 2019-02-13 14:58, Adam Weremczuk a écrit : Short answer - because it will take significantly longer and potentially lead to more errors. Especially if I have a number of servers with different structures and purposes. It's hard to beat 20-30 seconds it takes to click and type into VMware Co

Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-13 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Le 2019-02-13 10:14, Adam Weremczuk a écrit : Hi all, I persistently get "The destination does not support EFI firmware" . Apparently the latest Converter doesn't support Debian 9 (yet?). More details on my issue here: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2837600 Has anybody had success t

P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-13 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hi all, I persistently get "The destination does not support EFI firmware" . Apparently the latest Converter doesn't support Debian 9 (yet?). More details on my issue here: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2837600 Has anybody had success tricking Converter to perform a migration? Any