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By: BrainBlog » VMware vApp (from vSphere) to KVM

BrainBlog » VMware vApp (from vSphere) to KVM — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:02:11 +0000

[...] an XML file lacking several sections. Since it seems that we reached a dead end here, it is time to convert the vmdk images and define the libvirt xml schema later on: $ qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 vApp-disk1.vmdk [...]

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By: Small is Beautiful » Blog Archive » RHEV - import vmware image into RHEV

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:45:54 +0000

[...] ——— I used the following link to convert from vmdk to qcow2. [LINK] The following link is the howto located in the nagiosxi support forums. [LINK] [...]

By: Convert VMware growable, splitted and snapshoted disks « falstaffs Reise durchs Internet

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:16:45 +0000

[...] convert the VMware images I used this How-To. This worked quite well for most of my Virtual Machines. But several had snapshots or were [...]

By: fjgaude

fjgaude — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:49:00 +0000

Waiting for a fix to permit VMware with work with 9.10 Beta I decided to give KVM a try… thanks for your tireless efforts to keep us all on-track.

frank

By: help-v » 将vmware的虚拟机迁移到kvm

help-v » 将vmware的虚拟机迁移到kvm — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:30:46 +0000

[...] Convert VMware .vmdk to KVM .qcow2 or Virtualbox .vdi.Converting a VMWare image to Xen HVM 1.需要的第一个工具: vmware-vdiskmanager.exe .在网上找了一通,没有找到单独的下载包,只好安装了一个vmware workstation 6.5,vmware-vdiskmanager.exe就在 workstation 安装目录下. [...]

By: bodhi.zazen

bodhi.zazen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:52:00 +0000

Converting Windows VM does not work so well due to the way Microsoft licenses it’s products.

Windows is licensed per hardware and changing VM changes your hardware configuration and you are likely to have problems with needing to either re-authorize your installation or re-install drivers.

IMO, with Windows, you are better off backing up your data and performing a fresh install.

Converting Linux VM is easier, but still prone to errors.

The good news is, this process does not change your original VM.

By: Carl Moser

Carl Moser — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:38:55 +0000

I tried to convert a VMware VM to run on Ubuntu Jaunty KVM but got the Blue Screen of Death.
When I got it to boot from CDROM so I could do a repair install, it just rebooted.

KVM is not quite there handling VMware VM’s.

Carl

By: bodhi.zazen

bodhi.zazen — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:36:41 +0000

I agree, conversion does not always work. I also agree with the lack of documentation , many sites that use “KVM” in the title are using virsh or virt-manager as front ends, for example.

I think the problems vary with the VM and for your graphics card try reconfiguring X (boot to recovery mode and try xfix).

By: Juan

Juan — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:20:06 +0000

I have a pile of flat vmware images that have been converted using the method described here (although with kvm-img). They appear to convert fine but so far 2 out of 4 fail. One is a Ubuntu feisty vm. The Xorg log file complains of no device found (it contains reference to vmware vga drivers although vmtools were never installed) and there is also no network card present. Another one is WinXP. It doesn’t even boot. I get a BSOD type result.

There is a lack of online documentation on how to proceed once the images have been converted and how to tackle the kind of problems I have described.