> From: Alexander Dalloz
> Reply-To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:26:43 +0200 (CEST)
> To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware to KVM - possible?
>
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>> Is it poss
If you are using ESX/i remember that this hypervisor uses 2 kinds of disk
type (in 4.0.x). VMDK monolithic flat and VMDK monolithic sparse. This disks
types are directly supported from kvm.
Monolithic flat is compounded for 2 files.
* disk.vmdk is a text file with disk info
* disk-flat.vmdk is
>
> Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM?
> As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would
> like
> to migrate some to a KVM server.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Matt Keating
> Linux System Admin
Yes. Using qemu you can convert from .vmdk to qcow(2) or raw for inst
I have successfully migrated VM`s from ESXi to KVM. To convert disk I use next
command:
qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 dist-flat.vmdk disk.img
You also can use raw instead of qcow2.
But I have some troubles with MS Windows machines. It falls to BSoD caused by
lame disk drivers.
Mon 26 July 20
KVM supports VMDK monolithic sparse, qcow2 and raw. You can convert using
VBoxManage or qemu-img to this formats
Marc Morata | Senior Support Engineer | Abiquo | +34 93 322 00 44 |
marc.mor...@abiquo.com
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Matt Keating wrote:
> Is it possible to convert a VMWar
Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM?
As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would like
to migrate some to a KVM server.
Thanks in advance.
Matt Keating
Linux System Admin
Dennis Interactive
30 Cleveland St, London, W1T 4JD
Tel: 020 7907 6823 (direct line)
