Solaris 9 x86 - physical to virtual - VMWare

[Qaxi]

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

[John D Groenveld]

In article <d32db7be-5c3c-4d39...@f15g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,

Qaxi <kli...@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
groe...@acm.org

[Chris Ridd]

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