[CentOS-virt] Migrating from VMWare Workstation

Wed Jul 15 11:15:02 UTC 2009
Peter Hopfgartner <peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com>

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?
>
> If using Xen, do I have to convert the images?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
>
>   
1: you can not run XEN and VMWare server at the same time. VMWare 
refuses to install with a XEN-enabled kernel.
2: A How-To for migrating CentOS images is at 
http://www.funkypenguin.info/tutorial/how-to-convert-a-centos-5-vmware-image-to-xen/

Will try it next week.

Peter

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