Everyone, -- Greg Ennis I am trying to move some Centos 7 guests off of a Centos 8 host to a VMware host machine. qemu-img is a great tool in kvm to convert the files from *.qcow2 to *.vmdk very easily with the command : qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk *.qcow2 *.vmdk I have been able to easily move these files to the 'usb vmware' system with scp from the Centos 8 host to the VmWare host. (Interesting in that I could not get the scp in the VMware host to work). Unfortunately, I have not figured out how to import the files into VMware virtual machine yet. I can easily create a new virtual machine with a CentOS8 *.iso file which tells me that the Vmware host is working. I may have been looking in the wrong places for documentation, but so fare I have not been impressed with VMware's documentation to import pre-existing kvm guests. Do any of you have any tutorial links as to how to import these *.vmdk files into VMware? Thanks for your help!!!! Greg Ennis ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Everyone, I did find a way to copy a 'live' Centos 7 system to VMWare by way of using VMWare-converter that had to be installed on a microsoft Windows machine on the same network. (vCenter Converter Standalone 6.2.0.1). I consulted with some Microsoft guys that showed me how to do this. You will be required to have a login account with VMWare, but this does work and is quite easy to use. The design of the software is to work on Windows, and to copy a physical live machine to a newly created VMWare quest. There were a few problems when I booted the new CentOs 7 VMWare guest, and I am still working on those problems, but this process appears to work. Although the the VCenter Converter is designed to copy a physical disc I used it to copy a KVM Centos 7 guest which worked better than I expected. I am still working on finding a way to import a shutdowned KVM guest machine file directly into VMWare but have not found it yet. I have also not found a way for a linux desktop network viewer for a VMWare guest on the network. I am still very very new with the use of VMWare but I would say the network has been much easier to set up with VMWare than KVM, but the gui with KVM is much better than the gui with VMWARE. With the eol of Centos 8 being 9 months about I hope this note helps others that have to stop using Centos 8 as a hypervisor. I would surely like to hear from some of the veterans of this process. There just has to be a way to import a KVM file directly to VMWare. Please accept my apologies if some think this dialog is off topic, but it is not off topic for me. I have grown to love Centos and will always appreciate the great help and assistance from this forum!!!!! Thanks, Greg Ennis