Re: [CentOS-virt] Confused by qemu-img convert

2011-06-07 Thread Arun Khan
On 5/25/11, MargoAndTodd margoandt...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/25/2011 01:12 AM, Arun Khan wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 10:58 AM, MargoAndToddmargoandt...@gmail.com wrote: Do I need a ton of disk space to go to a full hard drive then back to a small virtual hard drive? Do I need the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Confused by qemu-img convert [OFFLIST]

2011-04-23 Thread William Kern
On 4/22/11 10:18 PM, MargoAndTodd wrote: I have a bunch of virtual machines running under Virtual Box 3.2.12. I want to run them under KVM and drop Virtual Box from these systems. Hi. I am curious why you are making the switch out of VirtualBox. We are beginning to test it with the new

Re: [CentOS-virt] Confused by qemu-img convert [OFFLIST]

2011-04-23 Thread William Kern
hehe, not as offlist as I would of liked grin but the question remains. -bill On 4/23/2011 6:09 PM, William Kern wrote: On 4/22/11 10:18 PM, MargoAndTodd wrote: I have a bunch of virtual machines running under Virtual Box 3.2.12. I want to run them under KVM and drop Virtual Box from these

Re: [CentOS-virt] Confused by qemu-img convert [OFFLIST]

2011-04-23 Thread MargoAndTodd
On 04/23/2011 06:09 PM, William Kern wrote: On 4/22/11 10:18 PM, MargoAndTodd wrote: I have a bunch of virtual machines running under Virtual Box 3.2.12. I want to run them under KVM and drop Virtual Box from these systems. Hi. I am curious why you are making the switch out of VirtualBox. We

Re: [CentOS-virt] Confused by qemu-img convert

2011-04-23 Thread William Kern
VBox 4.x is slower than 3.2.12. I can not take any more performance hits. I am still on 3.2.12 for the same reason you are using old-out-of-date Enterprise Linux. 8478 corrupted the hell out of a Visual Fox Pro and and M$SQL 2008 database. hmm. interesting experience you had. Sorry you had

[CentOS-virt] Confused by qemu-img convert

2011-04-22 Thread MargoAndTodd
Hi All, Okay. Now I am confused. I have a bunch of virtual machines running under Virtual Box 3.2.12. I want to run them under KVM and drop Virtual Box from these systems. Supposedly qemu-img convert now supports direct conversion from vdi to whatever KVM uses. So I fired up the man