I have about a dozen virtual machines that used to run under VMware
Server 2.x until something changed in RHEL5. Half of them are various
flavors of Windows workstation & server, while the others are Fedora. I
want to convert them to the native KVM virt-manager format. Up to now
the results of searches on how to accomplish those conversions have been
either way too brief or completely off target.
I've tried running 'qemu-img' and 'virt-convert'. With both I've found
myself standing on first base blindfolded with no clue how to get to
home plate.
The source directory for one of the conversion targets is:
$ ls -l /pub/Virtual-Machines/F10-64b
total 10787500
-rw------- 1 doc doc 1073741824 Oct 12 2008
564d9171-490c-0367-1951-809d15844fce.vmem
drwxrwxrwx 2 doc doc 4096 Oct 12 2008
564d9171-490c-0367-1951-809d15844fce.vmem.lck
-rw------- 1 doc doc 1016201216 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 679280640 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s002.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 235995136 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s003.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 111673344 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s004.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 22478848 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s005.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 271908864 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s006.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 54001664 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s007.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 22544384 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s008.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 229965824 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s009.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 21757952 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s010.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 15269888 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s011.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 1960706048 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s012.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 2119958528 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s013.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 1855782912 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s014.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 568393728 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s015.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 775421952 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s016.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 65536 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b-s017.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 8684 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b.nvram
-rw------- 1 doc doc 1037 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b.vmdk
-rw------- 1 doc doc 0 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 doc doc 2142 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b.vmx
-rw------- 1 doc doc 262 Oct 12 2008 F10-64b.vmxf
-rw-r--r-- 1 doc doc 237095 Oct 20 2008 vmware.log
I want the conversion products to go to /pub/VM/F10-64b/. Running
qemu-img doesn't produce much:
$ qemu-img convert /pub/Virtual-Machines/F10-64b/F10-64b.vmdk -O raw
/pub/VM/F10-64b/F10-64b.img
$ ls -l /pub/VM/F10-64b/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 doc doc 1024 Jan 16 14:35 F10-64b.img
Running virt-convert doesn't produce much more:
$ virt-convert -i vmx -o virt-image /pub/Virtual-Machines/F10-64b/
/pub/VM/vm-f10-64b
Generating output in 'virt-image' format to /pub/VM/
Converting disk 'F10-64b.vmdk' to type raw...
Done.
$ ls -l /pub/VM
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 doc doc 1024 Jan 6 12:22 F10-64b.raw
-rw-rw-r-- 1 doc doc 464 Jan 6 12:22 vm-f10-64b
Both of these seem to produce a metadata descriptor file. There must be
several more steps required to produce a complete VM image set that will
run under virt-manager, but I'm darned if I can figure out what they
are.
Can someone please provide a link detailing the rest of the process?
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
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