Requirements for Migrating to Virtual Machines

Any physical computer that you plan to migrate to a virtual machine must have the Parallels agent installed. The agent can be installed on computers meeting the following requirements.

Note: Migrating physical computers with system volumes formatted with ReiserFS is not supported.

Hardware Requirements

• 700 (or higher) MHz x86 or x64 processor (Intel or AMD).
• 256 MB or more RAM.
• 50 MB of hard disk space for installing the Parallels agent package.
• Ethernet or WiFi network adapter.

Software Requirements

For software requirements, see the table in General Migration Requirements .

Additional Requirements for Migrating Servers with Parallels Server Bare Metal

If you plan to migrate a server running the Parallels Server Bare Metal software, you should first make sure that the snapapi26 and snumbd26 modules are not loaded on the server. You can use the following command to check this:

# lsmod | grep snapapi26

# lsmod | grep snumbd26

If any of these modules are loaded, unload them by running the rmmod command. If the rmmod command fails to unload any of these modules, do the following:

1. Stop the Parallels Server Bare Metal service:

   # /etc/init.d/vz stop

2. Unload the modules:

   # rmmod snapapi26

   # rmmod snumbd26

3. Start the Parallels Server Bare Metal service again:

   # /etc/init.d/vz start

Once the modules are unloaded, proceed with migrating the server.

Notes :

1. Migrating Windows dynamic volumes and Linux logical volumes (LVM) is not supported.

2. You may also try to migrate servers with unsupported file systems. However, in this case all disk sectors are copied successively, and you may experience problems with using the resulting virtual machine.