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  • 1.  Converting Untangle (Debian Sarge) to a VM. (Physical to Virtual)

    Posted Mar 16, 2009 04:53 PM

    I am having problems converting our physical Untangle server to a virtual machine. I would really like to convert it directly from a physical to a virtual machine.

    The underlying OS is Debian Sarge with Untangle 6.0.1. I was told by vmweathers to post my issue here with the logs from my vConverter. I have attached the logs to this post and the ip address of the machine I have been attempting to convert is 10.168.100.2. Any help would be most appreciated.

    Thank You.

    Jake



  • 2.  RE: Converting Untangle (Debian Sarge) to a VM. (Physical to Virtual)

    Posted Mar 16, 2009 05:50 PM

    As I suspected, this is another one of the segfault failures of the vmware-sysinfo binary. This is also another unsupported distro, like the other 3 instances (mandriva 2007, debian X.Y (can't remember), RHEL5 beta 2).

    Depending on the version of the kernel (2.4.x or 2.6.x) this might not have worked through the full conversion process anyways, even if the querying succeeded. i.e., 2.4.x is generally unsupported.

    Also there were some odd log entries regarding the root filesystem:

    \[#8] \[2009-03-13 14:24:09,485 INFO storage ]: Got mount table entry: fsname: /dev/sda1, dir: /, type: ext3

    \[#8] \[2009-03-13 14:24:09,485 INFO storage ]: Looking for device with major 8 and minor 1

    \[#8] \[2009-03-13 14:24:09,485 INFO storage ]: Found device /dev/sda1

    \[#8] \[2009-03-13 14:24:09,485 WARN storage.volume ]: Creating volume with mountPoint: /, device path: /dev/sda1, fsType: ext3, _blockSizeInBytes: 4096, _capacityInBlocks: 18743823, _blocksFree: 12679210

    \[#8] \[2009-03-13 14:24:09,485 INFO storage ]: Got mount table entry: fsname: none, dir: /sys, type: sysfs

    \[#8] \[2009-03-13 14:24:09,485 INFO storage ]: Got mount table entry: fsname: none, dir: /proc, type: proc

    \[#8] \[2009-03-13 14:24:09,485 INFO storage ]: Got mount table entry: fsname: udev, dir: /dev, type: tmpfs

    \[#8] \[2009-03-13 14:24:09,485 INFO storage ]: Got mount table entry: fsname: /dev/disk/by-uuid/e7b600d2-44d3-4717-9472-c90334b80285, dir: /dev/.static/dev, type: ext3

    \[#8] \[2009-03-13 14:24:09,485 INFO storage ]: Looking for device with major 8 and minor 1

    \[#8] \[2009-03-13 14:24:09,485 INFO storage ]: Found device /dev/sda1

    \[#8] \[2009-03-13 14:24:09,486 WARN storage.volume ]: Creating volume with mountPoint: /dev/.static/dev, device path: /dev/sda1, fsType: ext3, _blockSizeInBytes: 4096, _capacityInBlocks: 18743823, _blocksFree: 12679210

    i.e., I would expect /dev/sda1 to have a mount point of / instead of /dev/.static/dev

    Can you cat /etc/fstab for me? Also run "sudo blkid".

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