On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:39:45PM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > Is this the mailing list to ask about issues/problems migrating VMware guests > to run on qemu-kvm, etc.? > > If not, please point me to an appropriate mailing list?
Yes this is good. I've actually been playing with manual migration of guests from VMWare recently. This is what I do: (1) Export the guest in OVF format (File -> Export -> Export OVF Template) (2) Convert the *.vmdk file (disk image) into a raw file: qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw *.vmdk image.raw (3) Boot the raw image using libvirt. I create a libvirt configuration by hand, but IIRC there is now a tool which does this automatically. Some problems: VMWare tools should be uninstalled from the original guest. Virtio drivers should be installed in the new guest (this is very complex to do for existing guests, which is why we are writing the virt-v2v tool to automate it). The virt-v2v tool will be ready in a few weeks. You can follow progress on it here: http://libguestfs.org Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 75 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
