On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Young h Oh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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, that's a good point regarding IDE. Again I'm OpenStack biased as it uses virtio by default to boot vms. :) Thanks, Curtis. > > > Thanks, > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Young Hyun Oh > IBM Software Group > > [image: Inactive hide details for Curtis ---02/20/2013 11:25:52 AM---On > Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov <[email protected]]Curtis > ---02/20/2013 11:25:52 AM---On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Dmitri > Chebotarov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > 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]*<[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 > *<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* <%28703%29%20993-6175> > Fax: *(703) 993-3404* <%28703%29%20993-3404> > > > > > > -- > Twitter: @serverascode > Blog: *serverascode.com* <http://serverascode.com/> > > -- Twitter: @serverascode Blog: serverascode.com
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