Converting Virtuozzo Containers to Vmware ESX VMs

[slayedbylucifer]

hello,

I havent come across a way to convert VIrtuozzo Containers to VMware ESX. There was only one thread in the community and that was unconclusive. Google returns nothing much.

I understand that the the Virtuozzo uses OS-level virtualization where as ESX uses hardware virtualization, so my chances are less for converting Virtuozzo containers to ESX VMs.

If anyone have any thouhgts/clues/tips, I would appreciate it a lot...

Thnx..

[krowczynski]

hi,

please look if this product

http://www.vizioncore.com/products/vConverter/documents/vConverterProductOverviewHQ.pdf

can help you here.

MCP, VCP

[IamTHEvilONE]

Additionally, there is no VMware branded product that can do this.

http://www.vmware.com/support/converter/doc/releasenotes_conv401.html

>Parallels Virtuozzo Containers are not supported in Converter Standalone.

Hopefully you find alternative means.

Regards,

EvilOne

VMware vExpert 2009

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[IamTHEvilONE]

The vConverter doesn't mention parallels containers, not anything that actually supports any OS Level virtualization instead of Hardware Virtualization.

Regards,

EvilOne

[admin]

Hello,

are the customer using windows or linux containers ? which version of virtuozzo ?

Best regards Pierre

[Qweb]

We need to convert Virtuozzo VPS's to VMware and cant find any solution also. We run Virtuozzo 4.5 for Windows and 4.0 for Linux.

Any help is appreciated.

[admin]

Hello,

for me my first attempt is a solution like this:

• convert with http://kb.parallels.com/en/6324

• convert again like http://www.vmware.com/support/converter/doc/releasenotes_conv40.html

For help it is a pso theme ....

Best regards

[Qweb]

Hello,

for me my first attempt is a solution like this:

• convert with http://kb.parallels.com/en/6324

• convert again like http://www.vmware.com/support/converter/doc/releasenotes_conv40.html

For help it is a pso theme ....

Best regards

thanks for your reply, apparently windows isn't support with this solution. Are there any other options I can try?

[sknipp]

A google of Parallels Virtozzo to ESX brought me to this post.

Very explicitly it is stated PVC container migration is not supported. But, I was wondering if it would work if we pretend the container is a physical server.

[Ruud_van_Strijp]

Has anyone tried treating the Windows container as a physical machine to migrate to a VMware ESX VM?

I'd also like to migrate our Virtuozzo 4.6 containers to ESX 5.0.