Generic physical location codes for virtual system and partition cloning

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer readable storage medium communicably coupled to the one or more processors, the computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to:
• read a configuration file having a first set of generic location codes;
• determine a first set of physical location codes associated with a first set of adapter slots in a target machine;
• determine a first order for the first set of physical location codes;
• generate, based at least in part on the first order, a first map that maps the first set of physical location codes to a second set of generic location codes;
• generate a second set of physical location codes from the first set of generic location codes and the first map;
• and
• utilize the second set of physical location codes in a configuration for the target machine.

A computer program product for cloning a machine configuration, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to:

• determine a first set of physical location codes associated with a first set of adapter slots in a source machine,
• determine a first order for the first set of physical location codes, and
• generate, based at least in part on the first order, a first map that maps the first set of physical location codes to a first set of generic location codes;
• wherein unassigned slots are omitted from the mapping of the first set of physical location codes to the first set of generic location codes.