Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM? As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would like to migrate some to a KVM server.
Thanks in advance.
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KVM supports VMDK monolithic sparse, qcow2 and raw. You can convert using VBoxManage or qemu-img to this formats
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Matt Keating Matt_Keating@dennis.co.ukwrote:
Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM? As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would like to migrate some to a KVM server.
Thanks in advance.
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I have successfully migrated VM`s from ESXi to KVM. To convert disk I use next command: qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 dist-flat.vmdk disk.img You also can use raw instead of qcow2. But I have some troubles with MS Windows machines. It falls to BSoD caused by lame disk drivers. Mon 26 July 2010 20:05:45 Matt Keating wrote:
Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM? As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would like to migrate some to a KVM server.
Thanks in advance.
Matt Keating Linux System Admin
Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM? As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would like to migrate some to a KVM server.
Thanks in advance.
Matt Keating Linux System Admin
Yes. Using qemu you can convert from .vmdk to qcow(2) or raw for instance.
Alexander
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.
Monolithic flat is compounded for 2 files. * disk.vmdk is a text file with disk info * disk-flat.vmdk is a raw disk
You can load disk-flat.vmdk directly in kvm.
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@uni-x.orgad%2Blists@uni-x.org
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Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM? As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would like to migrate some to a KVM server.
Thanks in advance.
Matt Keating Linux System Admin
Yes. Using qemu you can convert from .vmdk to qcow(2) or raw for instance.
Alexander
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From: Alexander Dalloz ad+lists@uni-x.org Reply-To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:26:43 +0200 (CEST) To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware to KVM - possible?
Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM? As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would like to migrate some to a KVM server.
Thanks in advance.
Matt Keating Linux System Admin
Yes. Using qemu you can convert from .vmdk to qcow(2) or raw for instance.
Alexander
Thanks to all for the help - will get converting today :)
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