[ale] Virtualizing SCO OpenServer 5.x

[Jim Kinney]

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.


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> 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.
>
> Anyone have any experience in doing this?
>
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> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
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