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On Mon, March 17, 2014 19:35, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Am 17.03.2014 19:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld: |
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>> I know. It usually comes at the least convenient moment. |
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>> I do think it's the customers' fault for not keeping up with normal |
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>> maintenance schedules. Most companies write off hardware after 3-4 |
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>> years. |
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> The support contract with the supplier ended in 2011 ... you know ... |
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Doesn't surprise me, to be honest... |
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> But OK, I wanted them to "do KVM" anyway. I just have to invest this |
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> evening ... in a way. |
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I've been planning to try KVM as well, but am wondering how snapshots work |
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with KVM. Not been able to find anything about that apart from |
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disk-snapshots. No info if it's possible to take a copy of the memory as |
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well. |
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> I am right before installing Qemu and configuring the network bridge etc |
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> ... the vmdks are already converted. Maybe it doesn't take that long. |
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I don't think it should take very long. :) |
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But, do check that the vmware tools get uninstalled from the guests and |
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replaced by KVM equivalents. |
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