How to migrate a physical Linux OS to an ESXI hypervisor?

Question

System administration

Hello, tell me a working way how to transfer linux from a physical machine to a virtual one, The fact is that I tried several times vmware converter gives an error of 98% something related to the kernel,
Recommend another way
Thank you

Answer 1

Take a disk image of a physical machine with dd and hack it into a virtual machine.
I did so.

Answer 2

clonezilla Start the virtual
machine with livecd, start the physical machine from the image, then carefully read what is written on the screen on both machines and do it.