Dmitri, How did you convert the Windows 7 VMware images? I've converted many VMware images to KVM iamges using qemu-img command but there was no problem for the Windows 7 images. (e.g., qemu-img convert VMware-Windows7-flat.vmdk -O raw KVM-Windows7.img). I think the blue screen might be caused by the wrong definitions in the VM's XML file, especially the disk format. Probably, you need to set the disk bus type to "ide" instead of virtio. For more detail setting, please refer to http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html. Also, the VMware tools in your converted KVM image can cause errors but not the blue screen. I hope this would be helpful.
Thanks, -------------------------------------------------------------------- Young Hyun Oh IBM Software Group From: Curtis <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Date: 02/20/2013 11:25 AM Subject: Re: Running VMware images on KVM host On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Have anyone succeeded in running VMware/KVM mixed environment for VCL? I'm having difficulties starting Windows 7 VMware images on KVM: the image would convert and load, but Windows gets blue screen. I assume this is due missing virtio drivers while attempting to run Windows on KVM. We also have VMware tools installed on Windows image, which may also contribute to the problem. Hey Dmitri, I am not an expert with Windows by any stretch, but yeah, your first inclination with regards to the virtio drivers is correct. When we migrated from ESXi to OpenStack + KVM I had to convert all our Windows images, mostly by using Redhat's virt-v2v and then a couple manual steps. See this blog post for what I did: http://serverascode.com/2012/11/26/converting-vmware-windows-to-openstack.html I would love to find out that there is an easier or better way, or one that would allow a single image to run in vmware and KVM...I just couldn't find a way to do it. Thanks, Curtis. Thank you, -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 -- Twitter: @serverascode Blog: serverascode.com
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