Qcow2 to VHD and VHD files size questions

2014-01-18 Thread Nux!
Hi, Most of my templates are Qcow2 files for KVM and I'd like to convert them in a format that XenServer can use. I managed to use qemu-img from the KVM tools to convert one in VHD format, however this seems to be a 50 GB (the virtual size of the qcow2) sparse file. Downloading this file from

Re: Qcow2 to VHD and VHD files size questions

2014-01-18 Thread Carlos Reátegui
This may apply to you. I was able to copy out a vhd from vbox and load it into ACS to use on XenServer hosts. This only worked if I selected the dynamic type of vhd not the fixed size one. It only worked in non PV mode but I think that was because I did not have a proper grub file with the

Re: Qcow2 to VHD and VHD files size questions

2014-01-18 Thread Nux!
On 18.01.2014 23:20, Carlos Reátegui wrote: This may apply to you. I was able to copy out a vhd from vbox and load it into ACS to use on XenServer hosts. This only worked if I selected the dynamic type of vhd not the fixed size one. It only worked in non PV mode but I think that was because I

Re: Qcow2 to VHD and VHD files size questions

2014-01-18 Thread Carlos Reátegui
Re bz2: all my templates are registered as bz2 so I know it works. On Jan 18, 2014, at 4:39 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: On 18.01.2014 23:20, Carlos Reátegui wrote: This may apply to you. I was able to copy out a vhd from vbox and load it into ACS to use on XenServer hosts. This only