Xen devel - May 2008 - hi

Hi I want to convert an MS virtual machines to Xen VM .programmatically
on linux. Is there any tool or help?

Please do the needful.

 

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Hi,

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Vikram Singh <Vikram.Singh@rsystems.com>
wrote:
>
>
> Hi I want to convert an MS virtual machines to Xen VM .programmatically on
> linux. Is there any tool or help?
>
I assume you mean MS Virtual PC?

I don''t know the status of it, but according to this thread there
should be support for the VHD disk format:

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-06/msg00783.html

Cheers,
Todd

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These patches were never accepted upstream.

 From the discussions - there seemed to be indication that QEMU already 
supported a
reverse-engineered format (before MS released specs for VHD) called VPC

I would look into that...

Todd Deshane wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Vikram Singh
<Vikram.Singh@rsystems.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi I want to convert an MS virtual machines to Xen VM .programmatically
on
>> linux. Is there any tool or help?
>>
>>     
> I assume you mean MS Virtual PC?
>
> I don''t know the status of it, but according to this thread there
> should be support for the VHD disk format:
>
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-06/msg00783.html
>
> Cheers,
> Todd
>
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Ben Guthro writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] hi"): From the discussions -
there
> seemed to be indication that QEMU already supported a
> reverse-engineered format (before MS released specs for VHD) called
> VPC
This is block-vpc.c which is in upstream qemu and also in ioemu.
I haven''t checked at all whether the code in qemu upstream works or
has been changed recently.  But that would be the right place to
start.

Because `tap:qcow:...'' in Xen config files is implemented in ioemu by
iterating over the image format drivers until one of them recognises
the format, you may well be able to pass a suitable disk image
directly in the xen domain config file - despite it not really being
qcow at all.

Ian.

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