Migration of physical machine to VM in Proxmox

[pgraluk]

Hello guys,
I have a SunV40 physical server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release wich I want to migrate to a virtual machine in Proxmox.
Which is the easiest way of doing that?
Thanks!

 

[vkhera]

I would do the migration as if I were moving the system to a new physical machine. Mainly you set up the new machine then copy over all necessary configurations, install necessary packages/programs, and copy data. Using rsync is a very handy way of copying the data since you can do the rsync repeatedly to get the updated data. Then you take a few minutes of downtime to make the final copy from an unchanging old server, swap IP addresses, and reboot both.