P2V fun?
We have a good number of servers which are being moved from physical to virtual. In our case VirtualBox is the virtualization solution. If you have not heard of VirtualBox, as a result of the Sun acquisition, it is an Oracle product. In my opinion VirtualBox has certainly not suffered since Oracle rebranded it. It is still available free of charge and is updated on a regular basis. In addition to overall stability, running on Windows, Linux, and OS X hosts is an attractive, and in our shop, needed feature. Moving physical CentOS servers to VirtualBox proved to be a bit of a challenge. There are a lot of good blog posts and HOWTOs on this subject. If minimal downtime is a must, this and other rsync-based solutions is worth reading. As it turns out regardless of the solution I used, ultimately I could not boot the resulting virtual server without using a "linux rescue" or "live distro" and then chroot'ing or mounting the converted filesystems. On th