Some useful methods for a similar process with vmdk files here: https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Migrating+from+ESXi+4.x
I used this to migrate a Win 2k3 image - although I ran in some performance issues which I never solved and that vm is not running at the moment. qemu-img should also work the same with "raw" image files. Nicholas On 11 January 2015 at 08:26, J Marc Edwards via smartos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > Robert: > > This is more along the lines of what I was thinking about. Ryan Nelson > was pretty convinced yesterday that Clonezilla was the only way to achieve > my objective. Greg Treantos also recommended Clonezilla. However, what > you describe seems very intuitive as to what should be "supported", i.e. > essentially transferring the "raw" disk image into a KVM zfs dataset. > > I wonder if Jonathan Perkin could cast a deciding vote on what he would do. > > Since your recommendation seems to be something I could probably do and > the tone of your response seems confident, I'm leaning to trying it first. > Clonezilla is a little bit intimidating to me at this moment with my > limited SmartOS experience. I'll be better next month after I finish the > SmartOS training with Max Bruning. > > Regards, Marc > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Mustacchi [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 12:22 PM > To: [email protected]; J Marc Edwards > Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Running Chrome OS in SmartOS KVM > zone...some advice/guidance... > > On 01/09/2015 08:15 PM, J Marc Edwards via smartos-discuss wrote: > > I have booted SmartOS on an Intel D54250WYKH NUC unit. The NUC has 16GB > of memory and a 256GB SSD mSATA. SmartOS has booted fine off of the > SmartOS USB boot stick. I have imported (“imgadm import”) some of Joyent’s > public images for Ubuntu, SmartOS, and Centos. I have a SmartOS zone and > an Ubuntu zone. No problems. Everything looks fine. So far, so good. > I’m only planning on running a few zones at a time on this little NUC. > > > > > > > > Now…I want to run the Chromium OS in a KVM zone. So, in my naïve > thinking, I decided to build a Chromium OS KVM “raw” image from Google’s > Chrome OS developer page on my Ubuntu 15 Linux workstation with the intent > of moving the Chromium OS KVM image over to the NUC and boot the image on a > KVM zone. > > > > > > > > I kind of thought that there would be a relatively straightforward > method to take the image tar/compressed on a USB stick and “import” the > image onto the global zone of the NUC. However, I found out that this is > much harder than I thought, and that I don’t have enough understanding of > how to proceed. > > > > > > > > I’m hoping that someone in the community would kindly inform me of how > they would expertly perform this task to migrate a Chromium OS KVM image to > a SmartOS KVM zone. > > What I'd do is first count the total number of disks that you have in your > Chromium OS KVM image, sounds like it just has a single disk. Next, I'd go > ahead and just create a KVM VM via vmadm and just specify a disk size that > matches the disk size of the disks you have for Chromium OS. > Note, as opposed to specifying an image_uuid for those disks, you can just > describe the disk size. From there, that'll create a zvol which I would > then dd the raw image you said you have to. Once you do that, you should > just be able to vmadm start the VM. > > Robert > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > smartos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25241303-ebebecbc > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
