[wplug] vmware p2v assistant

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Tue Nov 29 13:28:01 EST 2005


"Arnaud Loos" <arnaud at arnaudloos.com> wrote:

> I'm attempting to use vmware's p2v assistant to create vm's of physical
> servers. One of the components of this process is that I need to boot the
> physical server off a knoppix cd and run a program which tells the p2v
> program to listen on a specified IP and port for a connection. I'm able to
> do all this, but the actual copying of the image over the network is taking
> forever because vmware's program automatically sets the card to half-duplex
> for the data transfer. My switches are all hard coded to 100-Full.
> 
> Before running the vmware program in knoppix I have tried to go to the
> <knoppix> subsection in the GUI menu where there is an option for Network
> config, but clicking on the icon results in no discernable action by the
> operating system. Issuing an ifconfig command doesn't even show an eth0
> (which probably explains my previous statement). I know the NIC has been
> recognized by knoppix, it just isn't configured or even initialized until I
> run vmware's program. Running the program doesn't ever give me the option of
> configuring the duplex setting.
> 
> Any ideas on how I can configure the duplex setting without interfering with
> vmware's program configuring the rest of the settings?

Is it possible that the vmware program only configures the NIC if it's
not already configured?  Possibly if you manually configured it via
ifconfig before running the vmware program, the vmware program would
use the extant settings?

Just a guess.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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