Well. My first question here, has anybody done a migration from XenServer 5.6 to ESXi?
I can run the converter fine, and I'll get a VM on the other side I know this won't boot as the VM is using the xen-kernel. The target machine I've been testing with I've installed the default kernel and then run the converter process. I'm trying to boot other side with the distro's .iso ( in this case centos 5.3 ) and repairing the grub configuration, however this is where I'm stuck.
I'll get a number of errors, however I think this is due to the way the disks operate. In Xen, these are IDE devices and the migration process configures these using a SAS Logic controller and some "magic stuff" happens converting my /dev/xvda to a /sda device.
My last attempts have got this at a kernel panic - "stuck.setuproot moving /dev failed" and then init dies.
As most people have figured out. There's tons of doco moving off ESXi to Xen, but not the other way around!