Xen devel - May 2011 - Fail to boot Xen raw image with hda converted from VMWARE vmdk image with scsi

Hi everyone,

 

1.      I try to boot a raw image with hda under Xen hypervisor converted by
VMWARE vmdk image with scsi, but fail to boot with error message “Error loading
operating system” below”.

Who can give me a favor?

 

2.      Under vSphere,  create a windows XP VM with scsi storage then install a
windows XP to the SCSI storage called xp.vmdk in the VM via iso file. Can
successfully boot the VM under VMWARE hypervisor. Shutdown the VM.

3.      Use tool qemu-img to convert the vmware VM image xp.vmdk to raw image
called xp.raw

4.      Create a XEN VM with hda to xp.raw. During booting the XEN VM, will
appear the error message “Error loading operating system” below.

 

 

 

5.      I modify ide.c and rombios.c in xen hypervisor per the following link
then rebuild hypervisor then replace “qemu-img and hvmload” with the built ones,
but still fail to successfully boot with the same error message.

http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/PATCH-0-2-Fix-could-not-boot-vm-image-which-converted-from-phy-partition-td2548812.html

 

Note: My Xen platform is the CentOS5.5 64bit bundled with Xen 3.1.2.

Linux 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Feb 10 11:27:38 CST 2011 x86_64 x86_64
x86_64 GNU/Linux

xen_major              : 3

xen_minor              : 1

xen_extra              : .2-194.8.1.el5

 

 

 

Thanks.




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Hi, it seems that the format of the virtual machine file is incompatible
betweent VMware and Xen.
VMware has proposed a protocol named: OVF(Open Virtualization Format),  the
goal of OVF is to solve 
compatibility of image file during different virtual machine platforms.
You can get more information aboutn OVF in the following website: 
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/getting-started/learn/ovf.html
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/getting-started/learn/ovf.html 


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