Physical Machine to Virtual Machine converting – Linux P2V (Unable to access resume device)
Unable to access resume device mount: could not find file system /dev/root setuproot : error mounting /proc: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init! Convert Linux Physical Machine to Virtual machine (vmware and Virtualbox). Same procedure is working on vmware and virtual box A fine morning started with a new question in mind, what if I could convert our Linux physical server to vm. This lead me to finishing the task and documenting it. The complete migration process of Linux physical machine to virtual machine. The following steps have been tested on oracle enterprise Linux 5. I will be sticking to OEL 5 during complete process. The process comprises of taking a backup of physical machine and restoring it on a virtual machine Back up the physical server Startup a terminal on the physical server and change to maintenance mode shutdown -y -g1 (in 1 minutes system will go to single user mode)