#615 Issue closed: VM to physical server Rear Restore Failing¶
Labels: support / question
abhishekmittal02 opened issue at 2015-07-08 05:22:¶
Hi Guys,
I am trying to create a clone of a VM by taking rear and extracting the
ISO to install a Physical HP G9 Blade.
Booting is not getting started with the ISO.
Thanks
Abhishek Mittal
schlomo commented at 2015-07-08 06:06:¶
Hi Mittal,
this is a supported use case, the requirements are that the Linux
kernel
and OS of your VM would work on the hardware. If that is not the
case
(e.g. kernel too old, kernel is virtualization kernel that only works
on
VMs ...) then ReaR cannot do anything.
If it is not that then please provide screenshots and/or logs from
your
failed boot attempt.
Regards,
Schlomo
On 8 July 2015 at 07:22, abhishekmittal02 notifications@github.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
I am trying to create a clone of a VM by taking rear and extracting the
ISO to install a Physical HP G9 Blade.
Booting is not getting started with the ISO.Thanks
Abhishek Mittal—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/615.
gdha commented at 2015-07-08 11:33:¶
The problem IMO is Gen9 uses UEFI to boot and the ISO image created on
your VM was not UEFI aware, therefore, the ISO cannot boot on the
physical Gen9. Try to boot in legacy mode, but still that won't help as
you should create a partition for the EFI and the rest for the OS. Above
all, it should be a GPT partitioned disk, etc. As you see it is very
difficult without the UEFI tools on the rear rescue image ISO. There is
a lot of manual work to do.
Try cloning from an UEFI VM to Gen9
rbeldin commented at 2015-07-10 12:22:¶
Gen9's have the capability of either being in UEFI or legacy BIOS
mode.
Try setting legacy bios mode and try your restore.
I still think the chances of this working are slim. Your VM may not
have the right drivers to talk to the devices that are native on the
real hw. For example, if you were using virtual box para-virtualized
drivers for network and storage, you probably wouldn't have hpsa and
whatever nic drivers the gen9 needs for native access.
V2P and P2V are much more than just save and restore. There is 'magic'
that goes on behind the scenes to make that process work.
Rick Beldin
gdha commented at 2015-07-23 09:13:¶
@abhishekmittal02 did answer your question? Or, do you have any other concern?
gdha commented at 2015-08-06 11:39:¶
no reply - so close it
[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]