The next problem was the Oracle Linux 6.1 install. My LAN is not the fastest so total time to v2v conversion was about 10 hours to do both guest VMs. I had two VirtualBox guest machines on my laptop, so I used the VMware converter to simply pull them off (there is no pun here!) onto the VMware virtual infrastructure. Once installed, I then downloaded the VMware standalone converter to my laptop. It also means I can create a backup copy of the USB pen when trying out a VMware upgrade. This enables me to use the entire size of the internal SATA disks as VMware datastores for hosting guest operating systems. I decided to use a spare 8GB USB pen (check requirements in the installation guide relating to swap space) to install the VMware hypervisor on. The VMware install onto the HP XW6200 hardware was a snip: This is an update to my previous post here.
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