[CentOS-virt] Vmware to KVM - possible?

Tue Jul 27 09:49:38 UTC 2010
Matt Keating <Matt_Keating at dennis.co.uk>

> From: Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>
> Reply-To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
> <centos-virt at centos.org>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:26:43 +0200 (CEST)
> To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <centos-virt at 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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