V2P - Using Clonezilla with VMware - but I have two virtual disks - errors
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error 1: Error! No existing disk(s) or no unmounted disk(s) are found! To use clonezilla to save or clone a disk, the source disk must be unmounted!
error 2: The LVM Physical volume setting was not found
more info at bottom on above errors.
Don't ask me why but I've been requested to V2P a VMware machine. I'm using Clonezilla and a couple tutorials online. But, my VM has two virtual disks (screenshot).
The second virtual disk was added to the VM, I believe to increase the size of one of the filesystems, so that's why I'm not sure this will work. The second disk was added under vg0 as well.
Here's what I've done/doing...
http://serverfault.com/questions/704474/v2p-using-clonezilla-with-vmware-but-i-have-two-virtual-disks
1 - I took the usb drive and plugged it to the Dell server, booted up CloneZilla. However when I went to do 'disk to disk' clone, it gave me an error saying "Error! No existing disk(s) or no unmounted disk(s) are found! To use clonezilla to save or clone a disk, the source disk must be unmounted!"
This was for selecting the source disk, strangely it DOES see the USB drive with correct name and stuff....
The usb drive just had a clone of virtual disk 1. Can anyone recommend a fix for this error? The USB drive was made using the disk-to-disk clone option, and I just selected virtual disk (1).
If i can fix this I can repeat this method for the second virtual disk.
2 - I then tried remaking the clone, this time I used the 'clone to image' option, and was able to select BOTH virtual disks! BUT, it failed at the end saying "The LVM Physical volume setting was not found"
What's the OS in your virtual machine?
GNU/Linux? MS Windows?
If it's the latter, there is a bug about cloning the disk. We will fix it in the next release. For the time being, you can use the old stable release, e.g. 20140915-trusty:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/files/clonezilla_live_alternative/20140915-trusty/
Steven.
Hi Steven,
I actually got past this error, for some reason I had to make the disk a 'virtual disk' in the Dell System setup, then it sees the hard drive.
But I got following errors:
- the target (is 600 GB) but the source is 1000 GB.
Should I use the release above? Thanks Steven!
The OS is Linux btw, Suse 11.
Could you please give Clonezilla live
20150731-wily
20150731-vivid
or
2.4.2-29
a try?
You can find them on
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Thanks.
Steven.