How do i create a VM Ware Image of an AIX LPAR?

Question

Hi,

I want to clone a AIX LPAR and was wondering if the physical machine could be converted into a VM Image?

I have used the VMWare Converter to create a VM Image of a physical windows box and the documentation states that you can do that for Linux Boxes too.

http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/

I don't see information on AIX or the other UNIXes.

If creating an VM Image of an existing physical AIX box is not feasible is there any easy way to clone the AIX image to another AIX machine.

The primary intent is to avoid re-creating the setup that is already performed for the current AIX box and we want a duplicate environment with the same setup.

Answer 1

Based on further reading, i understand that VMWare does not support AIX. The guest OS can primarily be Windows, various distros of LINUX and Mac-OSX. I also see Solaris as a supported guest OS, but i don't see AIX. So i don't think this is possible.

I would have to look at the Virtualization features supported from IBM for this activity.

Thanks, Manglu