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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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

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?

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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

Thanks to all for the help - will get converting today :)

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