IVM to Hyper-V Fails to Boot Properly for RHEL 8.0 Source Node

Symptom

If you select the Server with GUI option while installing RHEL 8.0 on ESXI and performing the IVM to Hyper-V job, the target node that is generated on Hyper-V does not boot properly. Although the logs show success for the IVM job, it fails to boot.

Note: This issue is related to Redhat 8.0 on Hyper-V platform. For more information about this Redhat 8.0 issue, see the Redhat portal.

Unlike RHEL 7.x series, when you select the Server with GUI option for installation of RHEL 8.0, the following drivers are not installed by default:

Solution 1

As a workaround, follow these steps:

  1. After installing RHEL 8.0 source node on ESXI, install the following packages on node:
  2. yum install xorg-x11-drv-fbdev xorg-x11-drv-vesa xorg-x11-drv-vmware -y
  3. Perform a backup.
  4. Use the same backup session from RPS, and run the IVM job to Hyper-V.

Solution 2

Use this workaround when the backup has not been performed after installing the following drivers:

As a workaround, follow these steps:

  1. After you perform IVM to Hyper-V for RHEL 8.0 present at ESXI or after you install RHEL 8.0 on Hyper-V, from the Hyper-V Network tab, get the IP.
  2. Note: At this state, GUI is not available on the IVM node.
  3. Connect the VM through ssh application (such as putty) using the IP.
  4. Install the following packages on node.
  5. yum install xorg-x11-drv-fbdev xorg-x11-drv-vesa xorg-x11-drv-vmware -y
  6. Reboot the node.