<div dir="ltr">It would likely benefit your client to begin to migrate off that old crap. As it doesn't interact well with much of anything, dumping it ASAP is the best route. Otherwise, start looking on ebay for identical hardware and buy several as backups. Based on the thread here, encapsulating SCO as a VM is not a trivial process and seems to have a poor chance of success.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu" target="_blank">allen@ua.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a consulting client running SCO OpenServer 5.x on an old Dell PowerEdge 2600, and I would love to get this moved into a virtual. I've found some howtos for P2V'ing into VMware ESXi, by using G4U to make a whole disk image, ftp that to another machine on the LAN, then write it back to a VM, then change the various drivers, etc... inside the VM to get it to work. I'm going to haul a test machine down there with ESXi on it to test, but I was wondering if anyone else has had any luck doing this - either on ESXi or even on KVM? I know it won't be possible with XEN.<br>
I've also seen other mentions of people loading up the VM with a fresh install, and untarring a full system backup over the top of it. The problem is that I don't think there is enough free disk space on the original system to make that backup, and given the age of it, I want to mess with the hardware on the original system as little as possible.<br>
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Anyone have any experience in doing this?<br>
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Allen Beddingfield<br>
Systems Engineer<br>
The University of Alabama<br>
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