If you are using ESX/i remember that this hypervisor uses 2 kinds of disk type (in 4.0.x). VMDK monolithic flat and VMDK monolithic sparse. This disks types are directly supported from kvm.<br><br>Monolithic flat is compounded for 2 files. <br>
* disk.vmdk is a text file with disk info<br> * disk-flat.vmdk is a raw disk<br><br>You can load disk-flat.vmdk directly in kvm. <br><br><br><br clear="all">Marc Morata | Senior Support Engineer | Abiquo | +34 93 322 00 44 | <a href="mailto:marc.morata@abiquo.com">marc.morata@abiquo.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Alexander Dalloz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ad%2Blists@uni-x.org">ad+lists@uni-x.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM?<br>
> As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would<br>
> like<br>
> to migrate some to a KVM server.<br>
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> Thanks in advance.<br>
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> Matt Keating<br>
> Linux System Admin<br>
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</div>Yes. Using qemu you can convert from .vmdk to qcow(2) or raw for instance.<br>
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