VMware server
McDougall, Marshall (FSH)
Marshall.McDougall at gov.mb.ca
Thu Oct 4 13:08:20 UTC 2007
Thanks Sudhansu.
I guess I forgot to mention that we have very little money for this ;-)
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>Hi Marshall,
>
>I think u r looking for some migration tool P2V.
>If you are using vmware ESX-server then you can go forward for
>"Platespin".Link is http://www.platespin.com/ .This tool is
>much better
>than vmware-convert tool.
>
>Regards
>Sudhanshu Chopra
>
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>> 1. VMware server (McDougall, Marshall (FSH))
>> 2. Re: VMware server (Gaddis, Jeremy L.)
>> 3. RE: VMware server (McDougall, Marshall (FSH))
>> 4. "Permission denied" Problem (Ravi Shanmugam)
>> 5. Re: "Permission denied" Problem (David Bear)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:23:13 -0500
>> From: "McDougall, Marshall (FSH)" <Marshall.McDougall at gov.mb.ca>
>> Subject: VMware server
>> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
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>> This may be OT, but there is lots of knowledge here.
>>
>> I am looking for a P2V tool that I can use to scrape my RH Linux
>> servers. The vmware converter that vmware gives out is only
>useable on
>> windows servers. What are you folks using for this? Thanks.
>>
>> Regards, Marshall
>>
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:41:40 -0400
>> From: "Gaddis, Jeremy L." <jeremy at linuxwiz.net>
>> Subject: Re: VMware server
>> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
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>> On 10/2/07, McDougall, Marshall (FSH) <Marshall.McDougall at gov.mb.ca>
>> wrote:
>> > This may be OT, but there is lots of knowledge here.
>> >
>> > I am looking for a P2V tool that I can use to scrape my RH Linux
>> > servers. The vmware converter that vmware gives out is
>only useable on
>> > windows servers. What are you folks using for this? Thanks.
>>
>> I haven't tried it, but:
>>
>> "NOTE: Experimental support only is available for
>Linux-based physical
>> to virtual machine conversions using the Vmware Converter
>BootCD (cold
>> cloning) if the source physical machine has SCSI disks."
>> --http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/faqs.html
>>
>> That requires VMware Converter Enterprise, BTW.
>>
>> Haven't yet been put in a situation where we've needed to migrate
>> physical Linux machines to VMs. Unless VMware Converter's support
>> becomes something more than "experimental", I imagine we'd kickstart
>> new VM and "migrate" that way.
>>
>> --
>> Jeremy L. Gaddis
>> http://www.jeremygaddis.com/
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:58:42 -0500
>> From: "McDougall, Marshall (FSH)" <Marshall.McDougall at gov.mb.ca>
>> Subject: RE: VMware server
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>> >-----Original Message-----
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>> >[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
>Gaddis, Jeremy L.
>> >Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:42 AM
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>> >Subject: Re: VMware server
>> >
>> >On 10/2/07, McDougall, Marshall (FSH)
>> ><Marshall.McDougall at gov.mb.ca> wrote:
>> >> This may be OT, but there is lots of knowledge here.
>> >>
>> >> I am looking for a P2V tool that I can use to scrape my RH Linux
>> >> servers. The vmware converter that vmware gives out is only
>> >useable on
>> >> windows servers. What are you folks using for this? Thanks.
>> >
>> >I haven't tried it, but:
>> >
>> >"NOTE: Experimental support only is available for
>Linux-based physical
>> >to virtual machine conversions using the Vmware Converter
>BootCD (cold
>> >cloning) if the source physical machine has SCSI disks."
>> >--http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/faqs.html
>> >
>> >That requires VMware Converter Enterprise, BTW.
>> >
>> >Haven't yet been put in a situation where we've needed to migrate
>> >physical Linux machines to VMs. Unless VMware Converter's support
>> >becomes something more than "experimental", I imagine we'd kickstart
>> >new VM and "migrate" that way.
>> >
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>> >Jeremy L. Gaddis
>> >http://www.jeremygaddis.com/
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>> Thanks, Jeremy. I saw that "Experimental support..." on the VMWare
>> website and ruled it out. That's what I meant by only useable on
>> windows servers. I've got a basket of other new and wonderful things
>> that I am in the process of trying to make work. I have "migrated" a
>> couple of vm's by building a basic Linux guest and dumping a tape
>> restore on top of it, but I am hoping for an on the fly method.
>>
>> Regards, Marshall
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:15:17 +0530
>> From: "Ravi Shanmugam" <ravi.shanmugam at sasken.com>
>> Subject: "Permission denied" Problem
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a query on accessing a root file as a non-root user.
>The problem
>> is described as follows.
>>
>> I wanted to execute the following command
>>
>> cat /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub > /abiscard/local/root/.ssh/authorized_id
>>
>> as a non-root user i.e "backup" user. Is there any way I
>could do this.
>> This is for my project requirement.
>>
>> Your reply will be well appriciated.
>>
>> Regds,
>> Ravi R.S
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:58:02 -0700
>> From: David Bear <David.Bear at asu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: "Permission denied" Problem
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>> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 06:15:17PM +0530, Ravi Shanmugam wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I have a query on accessing a root file as a non-root
>user. The problem
>> > is described as follows.
>> >
>> > I wanted to execute the following command
>> >
>> > cat /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub > /abiscard/local/root/.ssh/authorized_id
>>
>> think about what you are asking. If a non root user could grab roots
>> public keys what would be the security risks? I'm not sure but since
>> the pub keys live in the same directory as the private keys,
>they will
>> share the same access protections from the containing
>directory, which
>> should be ... rwx...... ie, only root (the owner can read the
>> contents). You really don't want it any other way.
>>
>> since, what you really just want is the public key, you can become
>> root, copy the public key someplace else, like maybe /var/spool/root
>> ?? that say group wheel can read. Then, your backup user
>(which may be
>> part of group wheel) could read the key and put it where it can use
>> it.
>>
>> >
>> > as a non-root user i.e "backup" user. Is there any way I
>could do this.
>> > This is for my project requirement.
>> >
>> > Your reply will be well appriciated.
>> >
>> > Regds,
>> > Ravi R.S
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