[BlueOnyx:25922] Re: CMU migration

[Robert Fitzpatrick]

Michael Stauber wrote on 1/10/2023 10:20 AM:
> Alternatively you can use the VMDK or VDI disk images we provide. This 
> is a bit more work. You have to create a virtual machine with whatever 
> settings you want. Then you may need to convert the VMDK or VDI to 
> whatever format your virtualization engine uses and need to attach that 
> disk to the VM. That will then allow you to start the VM. But it'll have 
> pretty small disks and you might have to "grow" the disks (via the VM 
> configuration) as well as the partitions inside the VM via "fdisk" or 
> "parted" and the LVM tools and/or "xfs_growfs". This is something that 
> needs a bit of familiarity with these tools.
> 
> Bottom line: The ISO is still the easiest way.

Yeah, didn't even think about the disk space concern, thanks Michael. 
While I'm very familiar with xfs, why? I've installed a couple of VMs 
now, one with BO ISO and one manual install with Rocky ISO.

> Very well. As for migrating your data from 5209R to 5211R? Forget CMU. 
> We now have something that works much better and it's called "Easy 
> Migrate". The instructions for it can be found here:
> 
> https://www.blueonyx.it/easy-migrate

Great! Thanks again.

-- 
Robert