i have a esxi server on a PC and a physical oracle linux 5 on another one.
i tried to convert physical oracle to a virtual through a third PC by a vmware conveter 5.5 but on 99% it failed with log blow.
FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'InitrdNativePatcher failed to generate initrd image: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/initrdGenRhel.sh failed with return code: 1, and message: * /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev has 3 files Creating initramfs Modulefile is /etc/modprobe.conf Looking for deps of module sd_mod: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module scsi_mod Looking for deps of module sd_mod: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module ehci-hcd Looking for deps of module ohci-hcd Looking for deps of module uhci-hcd Looking for deps of module ext3: jbd Looking for deps of module jbd Looking for driver for device sdb1 Looking for deps of module mptbase Looking for deps of module mptscsih: scsi_mod mptbase Looking for deps of module mptsas: scsi_mod scsi_transport_sas mptbase mptscsih Looking for deps of module scsi_transport_sas: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module mptspi: scsi_mod scsi_transport_spi mptbase mptscsih Looking for deps of module scsi_transport_spi: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module shpchp Looking for deps of module ahci: scsi_mod libata Looking for deps of module libata: scsi_mod Looking for deps of module ide-disk Looking for deps of module dm-mod Looking for deps of module dm-mirror: dm-mod dm-log Looking for deps of module dm-log: dm-mod Looking for deps of module dm-zero: dm-mod Looking for deps of module dm-snapshot: dm-mod Looking for deps of module dm-mem-cache Looking for deps of module dm-region_hash: dm-mod dm-log Looking for deps of module dm-message Looking for deps of module dm-raid45: dm-message dm-mod dm-mem-cache dm-log dm-region_hash Using modules: /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/ata/ahci.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-log.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mirror.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-zero.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-snapshot.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mem-cache.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-region_hash.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-message.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-raid45.ko /sbin/nash -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/bin/nash /sbin/insmod.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/bin/insmod /etc/udev/rules.d/05-udev-early.rules -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/etc/udev/rules.d/05-udev-early.rules /sbin/firmware_helper.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/sbin/firmware_helper /sbin/udevd.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/sbin/udevd copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/scsi_mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/sd_mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/ehci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/ohci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/uhci-hcd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/jbd.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/ext3.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/mptbase.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/mptscsih.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/scsi_transport_sas.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/mptsas.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/scsi_transport_spi.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/mptspi.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/shpchp.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/libata.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/ata/ahci.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/ahci.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-mod.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-log.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-log.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mirror.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-mirror.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-zero.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-zero.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-snapshot.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-snapshot.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mem-cache.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-mem-cache.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-region_hash.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-region_hash.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-message.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-message.ko' [elf64-x86-64] copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-371.el5/kernel/drivers/md/dm-raid45.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.iz2976/lib/dm-raid45.ko' [elf64-x86-64] /sbin/lvm.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/bin/lvm /sbin/dmraid.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/bin/dmraid /sbin/kpartx.static -> /tmp/initrd.iz2976/bin/kpartx Adding module scsi_mod Adding module sd_mod Adding module ehci-hcd Adding module ohci-hcd Adding module uhci-hcd Adding module jbd Adding module ext3 Adding module mptbase Adding module mptscsih Adding module scsi_transport_sas Adding module mptsas Adding module scsi_transport_spi Adding module mptspi Adding module shpchp Adding module libata Adding module ahci Adding module dm-mod Adding module dm-log Adding module dm-mirror Adding module dm-zero Adding module dm-snapshot Adding module dm-mem-cache Adding module dm-region_hash Adding module dm-message Adding module dm-raid45 cpio: write error: No space left on device * user script returning code 1 * unmounting /mnt/p2v-src-root/dev /mnt/p2v-src-root/proc and /mnt/p2v-src-root/sys ERROR:
failed running mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-371.el5.img 2.6.18-371.el5 with chroot /mnt/p2v-src-root '
any solution for this problem? can i edit my virtual machine on esxi to solve the problem or should I reconvert it?