 JTCAlways Mount A Scratch Monkey
join:2002-01-09
USA | reply to DJStarfox
Re: Virtualbox, vmware server 2.x, same machine said by DJStarfox:If this is a critical production system, then yes, you should test out this scenario on a test machine first. Don't forget you'll need the kernel-headers and c++ compiler installed on the host to install VirtualBox. Really, you need a different machine (but very similar hardware) to do a proper migration. There's no getting around some downtime in your scenario. Ideally, you'd have a test box be the temporary machine hosting VMWare VMs while you reconfigure the primary machine. Agreed on all points. I know there will be down time, but being able to simply copy/image a virtual disk from one filesystem to another locally is much preferable to having to throw several gigs of data across the wire.
Unfortunately, I don't have the funds or spare kit laying around to build a scratch monkey for this (otherwise I wouldn't even be considering doing it this way), so I figured I would ask and see if anyone has tried it and if so, does it work well enough to get the job done. 
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