The versions we are running are listed below. Older versions of qemu-img does
not convert correctly from 2gbsparse vmdk to qcow2. Check the actual size if
the qcow2 file that was created with du. It may be 0 or much smaller than the
original vmdk image. They should be similar in size.
You can download libvirt/KVM and install it. I have never done this. The
options are daunting. It would be helpful if someone could figure it out and
add instructions to the site.
I don't think VMware Tools is the problem but it's better to uninstall it
before converting an image to KVM if possible. Once the image is running on a
KVM vm you can't run setup to uninstall it completely. There are cleanup
tools but they don't get everything.
libguestfs 1.12.7
libguestfs-tools 1.12.7
libguestfs-tools-c 1.12.7
perl-Sys-Guestfs 1.12.7
libvirt 0.9.6
libvirt-client 0.9.6
libvirt-python 0.9.6
gpxe-roms-qemu 1.0.1
qemu-common 0.15.0
qemu-img 0.15.0
qemu-kvm 0.15.0
qemu-system 0.15.0
Hope this helps,
Andy
On 2/28/2013 3:34 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to use CentOS 6.3 as KVM host.
qemu-img fails to convert .vmdk files. It's sees .vmdk as raw format and
ignores actual data in -flat.vmdk file.
I assume this is b/c of older version of qemu-img?
qemu version in CentOS 6 is 0.12. Latest version on Qemu.org is 1.4.0.
What is the version of qemu package that comes with Fedora 16?
Thanks.
On Feb 20, 2013, at 13:49 , Josh Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
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We are also running a mix of VMware and KVM host servers. We are using Fedora
16 as the KVM host. VCL can automatically deploy images captured on either
one to either host type. Andy might be able to speak better to any
requirements for it to work, but as long as you follow the online instructions
on creating base images, it should work.
Josh
On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 6:18:08 PM Yannick Charbonneau wrote:
We have a mixed vmware/kvm setup.
I think one thing we were missing initially was "libguestfs-winsupport"
package. Which caused issues with windows machines moving from vmware to
kvm.
We run our vcl on CentOS 6.
Hope this helps.
Yanik
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Subject: Running VMware images on KVM host
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.
Thank you,
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Thank you,
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