unable to boot into kali linux after V2V conversion

rukks · Thu Sep 01, 2022 1:04 pm

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Hi There,

I have successfully converted a working Kali Linux vm from Hyper-V to ESXi-6.5.0-20180502001-standard but when i boot into it in ESXi it stays on the BIOS screen and wont boot into the OS. Ive also tried creating a new machine by converting the disk only but I get the same result. I'm using the converter version 9.0.1.268. Just a few months ago I did the same conversion and it worked without an issue, whats changed?

Thu Sep 01, 2022 3:27 pm

Try chaning boot from BIOS to EFI.
I guess this related to drivers(e.g., integration tools) and boot option.

rukks · Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:43 pm

Hi There,

The setting was already set to EFI boot. I tried converting just the hard disk too but everything I tried didnt work except.......

Issue resolved, recreated the kali vm as a gen 1 vm in hyper-v and the conversion to esxi server was successful. There is something about the gen 2 hyper-v vm the conversion breaks the hard disk or the boot file or something for kali but no time to spend on troubleshooting it work tbh. Maybe this could be used as a test case for the converter? Either way there is nothing wrong with it persay, I will continue to use it, it saves a lot of faffing around using other tools.

Thanks for your suggestions though.

All the best

Mon Sep 12, 2022 6:21 pm

I believe it is normal for Linux VMs to boot as GEN1 VMs. I believe it to be related rather to a VM than to the V2V Converter.