[CentOS-virt] Migrating from VMWare Workstation

On 07/10/2009 08:34 PM, Peter Hopfgartner wrote:
> Dear virt list
>
> I have some virtual machines running on my notebook under VMWare 6.5.2 
> 64 bit that I would like to move to a current 64 bit CentOS 5.3 machine 
> with a current Intel Xeon processor. The virtual machines do use the 
> GUI, e.g. they are not text only.
>
> Is it better to use VMware server or Xen?
>   
"better" depends strictly on your needs and expertise. It's simpler to 
go the vmware server way, since all you have to do is to install the 
vmware-server rpm and register the existing VMs with it. By coincidence 
I've done exactly that 2 days ago.
OTOH, xen is supported by the centos [and the wider linux] community , 
vmware is supported by others. Choose your poison :)

> If using Xen, do I have to convert the images?
>   
Yes, you do. Most probably you'll need to play at least with 
vmware-vdiskmanager