how to move VM from vmware workstation to hyper-V

IT-ADMIN

@IT-ADMIN said:

unfortunatley i'm out of office now because i just finish my shift, because there is a huge time difference btw us and USA,
now it is 7:36 pm and tomorrow friday we are off, next saturday i will try that command i'm very sorry you want to help me but i'm out of office now

No problem. I have a CentOS 6.5 server running on top of XenServer at home and one of the things you have to do when first setting it up is bring up the interface. If that works (it probably will) You will then need to add
onboot=yes
into the
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
config file.

i promise you i will do that next friday and tell you what i get
thanks

scottalanmiller

@IT-ADMIN said:

i don't know why the majority of engineers that are willing to help others and share their precious knowledge are USA engineers,

One reason is that we have more engineers than anywhere else. Volume makes a big difference. But you are right, the numbers do seem to be very high for US versus other regions to do this even taking into account the volume.

Might be cultural. It could be as simple as jobs in the US want people who are demonstrably active and good. How many people outside of the US would list their ML or SW posting on their resumes? But in the US I always have this posting on there.

Many cultures favour IT staff (and most staff) that is quiet and does what they are told. But culturally in the US it is expected that good IT staff will push back on management and not just cave to senior staff telling them what to do. I know that between the US and India this is a huge difference.

scottalanmiller

Although we should not that several contributors here that are quite active like @Carnival-Boy and @Breffni-Potter and @akp982 are British, not American, and while @dominica and I are American citizens we do not primarily live there. @joy and @nadnerB are busy contributors too, also not American. @MattSpeller is Canadian. @Ambarishrh is in the UAE. @nic lives in the US but isn't an American. Just some examples that I thought of quickly. I'm sure there are tons of non-Americans here that are busy posting. Certainly more American than not, but probably not as dramatically American as it can seem.

Joy

@scottalanmiller said:

Although we should not that several contributors here that are quite active like @Carnival-Boy and @Breffni-Potter and @akp982 are British, not American, and while @dominica and I are American citizens we do not primarily live there. @joy and @nadnerB are busy contributors too, also not American. @MattSpeller is Canadian. @Ambarishrh is in the UAE. @nic lives in the US but isn't an American. Just some examples that I thought of quickly. I'm sure there are tons of non-Americans here that are busy posting. Certainly more American than not, but probably not as dramatically American as it can seem.

So true @scottalanmiller , I find a lot of people here are very helpful not only from US, but from different parts of the world lols. Just make sure to explain your problem loud and clear, to get the best answer.
PS. I'm still in the process of learning

IT-ADMIN

finally i solve the problem, thanks to this article : http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2037891

i had to change the MAC address in ifcfg-eth0 because it retained the old one (issued by vmware), when i move the VM to XenServer, the MAC address changed in the VNIC but was not changed in the config file, i changed and it work fine, now i can ping and everything

but the weird thing is still i have unknown on the ip address in the networking tab in XenCenter even if i restart the host and the guest more than one time ?!!?!?!?

scottalanmiller

@IT-ADMIN said:

but the weird thing is still i have unknown on the ip address in the networking tab in XenCenter even if i restart the host and the guest more than one time ?!!?!?!?

Sounds like the Xen PV driver(s) is missing.

IT-ADMIN

yes they are missing, i can't install them

IT-ADMIN

i tried to mount the xenserver tool iso but it looks like my centos version is not compatible with xenserver

IT-ADMIN

@IT-ADMIN said:

Now i have trouble with my VM, the IP is shown as unknown

, after doing some research i found out that i have to install xenserver tools, the bad news is i have to run CLI in both centos (for my freePBX VM) and freebsd (for my pfsense VM) to mount the iso located in my virtual DVD,
well i start with centos and do the following :
mkdir /mnt/DVD

in this stage the iso was mounted, isn't it ? i think yes because the directory contain the setup files for xenserver tool like this image show :

after that i launch the installer but i get a shitty message

i guess my centos version 6.5 is not supported, this is what a get

scottalanmiller

@IT-ADMIN said:

yes they are missing, i can't install them

They are needed for that kind of functionality. It is the PV drivers that allow the guest to communicate with the host.

scottalanmiller

@IT-ADMIN said:

i tried to mount the xenserver tool iso but it looks like my centos version is not compatible with xenserver

That does not sound right. What version of each are you running? We've used every modern version of CentOS on XenServer.

Ideally you install CentOS as PV, not as virtualized and then add PV drivers. CentOS is Linux and has a level of Xen support that exists in no other OS family.

scottalanmiller

Oh, because you brought over from VMware Workstation (which is a different architecture) you broke the compatibility for Xen. I'm not sure how difficult it will be to convert now.

Just do a fresh install.

scottalanmiller

@IT-ADMIN said:

i guess my centos version 6.5 is not supported, this is what a get

XenServer's own Dom0 is built on 6.5. It's the most compatible version. The issue is the P2V from VMware which can't do paravirtualization that is the problem.