I have a 16.04LTS running on an intel NUC that seems happy there. I'm trying to P2V to my ESXi6.5u1 machine. The machine is up to date with apt-get update etc. Conversion seems to go fine though I did make the memory and disk sizes a little smaller, but still way bigger than it needs. Booting that VM gets me kernel panic not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block 0,0.
Tried to boot advanced options and it shows one for upstart and another for recovery mode. They all boot to the same error. Following some guides online I hit C to go to command line and for example "df -h" results in error: can't find command 'df'. Every command I'm finding online to troubleshoot this is not found.
What should I do?
Other things I have tried:
Deleted the VM and converted it again, only this time selecting SATA disks instead of the suggested SCSI, which would match the source machine. Same exact problem.
Third time through I found a warning message about resizing boot, set that to the same size but still got same error.
Hi,
Boot your virtual machine on a ubuntu 16.04 ISO
Start in rescue mode
after the configuration screens, select your root lvm partition
launch a shell on this partition
execute 'update-iniramfs -u'
execute 'update-grub'
type 'exit'
and reboot your machine.
Yours,
I just stepped through booting my vm by the ubuntu 16.04.5 ISO. Successfully got to rescue mode. However when trying to execute this command on the vg/root file system it errors saying "update-iniramfs: not found".
Any help or isight would be appreciated.
OC has a typo. It's update-initramfs
I had same experience.
I tried below.
When convert, I selected "To basic".
I succeeded.
"[Options][Data to copy]Advanced--->
Destination layout
--->「To basic」
Perfect! This just saved me 😉 Thank you!
i need more details Please
i need more details please
how to start rescue mode
P2V using vCenter Converter.? I face the same issue and am unable to solve the issue
In my case, I use Veeam for conversion. you can also try veritas backup exce or nakivo.