Hello,

is there any tool or method to convert physical Solaris 9 on x86 to
virtual machine on VMWare?

I have v20z machine and I need more memory and disc for JES system,
and I do not want spent money on upgrade of this ancient system. I am
planing use my brand new M4000 for new version of JES, but now I have
to solve this ...

# uname -a
SunOS sun 5.9 Generic_118559-39 i86pc i386 i86pc
# df -h
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0      5,9G   1,9G   4,0G    32%    /
/proc                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5      4,0G   1,4G   2,6G    35%    /var
swap                   2,6G    76K   2,6G     1%    /var/run
swap                   2,6G   2,8M   2,6G     1%    /tmp
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s6       53G   3,4G    49G     7%    /opt
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6       67G    59G   7,2G    90%    /opt/SUNWmsgsr/
data/store/partition/primary


# this does not work
# dd if=/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 | (ssh -l root NEWMACHINE dd of=/dev/rdsk/
c1t0d0s2 ; )

# and this either
# rsync -a --rsh=ssh --rsync-path=/opt/csw/bin/rsync --exclude=/proc --
exclude=/var/run --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/net -P -z /
root@NEWMACHINE:/

Thanks

Petr Klima

In article <d32db7be-5c3c-4d39-a740-18b9f7b873db@f15g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
Qaxi  <klimap@gmail.com> wrote:
>is there any tool or method to convert physical Solaris 9 on x86 to
>virtual machine on VMWare?

Assuming Solaris 9 supports VMWare, you could boot the Solaris 9 ISO,
restore UFS dumps of your production system to the VMWare virtual disk
image and then update the device paths per the FAQ.
<URL:http://faq.solaris-x86.org/6.html>

Happy hacking,
John
groenveld@acm.org

On 2010-02-09 15:36:38 +0000, John D Groenveld said:

> In article <d32db7be-5c3c-4d39-a740-18b9f7b873db@f15g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
> Qaxi  <klimap@gmail.com> wrote:
>> is there any tool or method to convert physical Solaris 9 on x86 to
>> virtual machine on VMWare?
> 
> Assuming Solaris 9 supports VMWare, you could boot the Solaris 9 ISO,
> restore UFS dumps of your production system to the VMWare virtual disk
> image and then update the device paths per the FAQ.
> <URL:http://faq.solaris-x86.org/6.html>

The Solaris 8/9 container product contains a p2v tool for the original 
OS. It is free for an evaluation period, which should be long enough 
for you to do the job.

If memory serves you end up with a flash archive, which you would then 
presumably use with the Solaris installer in vmware.

-- 
Chris