Steps to convert from hyper-v guest to vmware guest

• Remove hyper-v integrated services while hyper-v guest is running. (if possible)
• Note down NIC networking details first
• Clean shutdown hyper-v guest
• Use StarWind Converter (free) to convert VHD to “dynamically growing VMware” image and use “IDE” as type. Note “SCSI” does NOT work if you have not got the LSI / BUS drivers in the source image, just use the default options – dynamic vmware and IDE.
• Create VMware guest shell (virtual machine equivalent to hyper-v specs but without the disks) – remove all hard drives, iscsi controller should also disappear.
• Upload the VMDK to same data store as virtual machine and attach to the virtual guest in the right order. They should be detected as “IDE”
• Start new vmware guest
• If you could not remove integrated services (i.e. hot clone), then you MUST disable hyper-v services immediately.
• Install vmware tools – reboot
• Remove hidden NIC and other orphaned devices, and reconfigure network card as per original.
• Windows may need to be re-activated – do this.

Note : converting a machine to use an IDE controller will limit its performance!

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Next delete isolinux.bin and rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg

Edit syslinux.cfg and append “usb” to the line starting with “append” … i.e. similar to this

append vmkboot.gz — vmkernel.gz — sys.vgz — cim.vgz — ienviron.tgz — image.tgz — install.tgz usb

Next grab the latest syslinux.exe (zip for windows) from here and run syslinux -s –ma <driveletter>:

Done.

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First download the .iso, then browse with winrar or similar. See if you can find the “big”.dd file this is the file we need.

i.e. the ESXi 4 file is called VMware-VMvisor-big-208167-x86_64.dd

Next grab WinImage and “restore image to physical harddrive” choose the .dd file the select your usb / flash drive.

Done.

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One was particularly strange, the install process would freeze every now and again until i pressed a key on the keyboard. This was related to AMD’s power saving C1 mode – disable this in the bios to fix this problem.

Secondly it was a problem with my nic. Essentially i didn’t have card that was supported (realtek). After inserting a intel card all was well. This fires up a ambiguous error and cans the whole install. (lvmdriver error)

It was nice to see that my pata drive was supported – i’ve been using it for quick tests but was unsure if it was supported in vSphere. Note: i’ve got a flash card enclosure that i’m planning on using in the future, just awaiting the card.   (hopefully this saves me some power)

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zfs set sharenfs=rw,nosuid,root=esxhost tank/nfs

Note : You MUST have a resolvable name from the opensolaris box. i.e. you should be able to ping it. I have tried with ip’s only and it will fail. I have edited the /etc/hosts file to include the following line for my config;

# Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
# ident “%Z%%M% %I% %E% SMI”
#
# Internet host table
#
192.168.9.120 esxhost

This also requires that you are using both DNS and Files in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. You should have a line like so;

# You must also set up the /etc/resolv.conf file for DNS name
# server lookup. See resolv.conf(4). For lookup via mdns
# svc:/network/dns/multicast:default must also be enabled. See mdnsd(1M)
hosts: files dns mdns

# Note that IPv4 addresses are searched for in all of the ipnodes databases
# before searching the hosts databases.
ipnodes: files dns mdns

i’ve also run this before hand; (to allow full access)

chmod -R 777 /tank/nfs

Update : check this guide http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/running-zfs-over-nfs-as-a-vmware-store

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