Am 16.01.2011 21:55, schrieb Robert G. (Doc) Savage:
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'm currently doing the same thing. Moving away from VMware and on to
KVM. However I've been successful on running VMware Server 2.x on RHEL
5.4, 5.5 and now 5.6. It needs some tweaking but otherwise it seems to
be running fine.
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:
I *think* you don't have a single file for your virtual disks but you
did split them into several 2GB files. If this is the case, you first
need to combine them into a single file, then convert.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/FAQ
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?
I don't have a single link ready I'm using. Just try "vmware convert to
kvm" within e.g. Google. I'm using a combination of the guides from
Ubuntu, fedora, and some blogs and also some manual tweaking.
Basically it's uninstall VMware Tools, possibly apply a registry patch
for Windows - I just got blue screens without it - then convert the
disks and the configuration file.
Kind Regards,
Dirk
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