Re: [Xen-users] Xen HVM images on VMware ESX

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Diwaker Gupta wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to convert some Xen HVM images to run on VMware ESX,
> unsuccessfully thus far. I believe the problem is that ESX by default
> wants the VMs to use SCSI virtual disks, but my HVM VMs are configured
> to use IDE virtual disks. If you have any experience with this sort of
> thing, please get in touch.
>
> Thanks!
> Diwaker
>   
I just went through this with SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 as a guest domain, 
migratiing from VMware Workstation (which supports IDE) to VMware ESX 
(which only supports BusLogic or LSI SCSI for disk controllers). The 
limitation seems silly, but this is what you get when you insist on 
running on the antique RHEL 3.x and its 2.4 kernel as your base OS for 
your emulation server.
For Linux migrations, you should be able to boot with an installation 
CD, detect and mount the hard drives, edit the system's 
/etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf, re-run 
grub-install, and be ready to boot. I've in fact previously written 
tools to install RedHat operating systems from tarballs, so I know it's 
feasible.
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