Virtulaization
- From: "Jay Weinshenker" <jweinshe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, guillermo.bort@xxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:57:28 -0500
If it were me, I'd go a different route
Switch to ESXi (which is free) and put it on the bare metal of the
server you want to migrate to. Then it's merely a copy of the vmdk
files that make up your VMs. From there you can easily clone those VMs
for testing for upgrades etc.
OracleVM, which uses XEN virtualization, was something that RedHat
started to go with when RH5 came out. RH has since decided to go away
from XEN to KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine). So you're at a point where
the people who Oracle steals their Linux code from has stopped any
development on the product. Plus, XEN isn't anywhere as mature as ESX.
Depending on the version of your VMware server VM, it may work
flawlessly and without any conversions in ESXi. Check Vmware's site.
If you must go the route of migrating the VM from running virtualized
under VMWorkstation to running virtualized under OracleVM, install and
check out mondorescue and mindi - these will allow you to backup your
running, live, Linux box and then restore it. Just make sure if you do
it live you put the DB in the VM into hot backup mode.
Let me know any questions or concerns.
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