Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM? As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would like to migrate some to a KVM server. Thanks in advance. Matt Keating Linux System Admin ? Dennis Interactive 30 Cleveland St, London, W1T 4JD Tel: 020 7907 6823 (direct line)? Fax: 020 7907 6600 (fax)? P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail NOTE: The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged, unless stated to the contrary. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate that information. Any opinions or comments are personal to the writer and do not represent the official view of Dennis Publishing Ltd. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please contact itdirector at dennis.co.uk immediately by reply email and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus, or other defects, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that they are virus free and no responsibility is accepted by Dennis Publishing Ltd for any loss or damage arising from the receipt or use thereof. Company registered in England No. 1138891 Registered office: 30, Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20100726/69edb013/attachment-0004.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4825 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20100726/69edb013/attachment-0002.jpg>
KVM supports VMDK monolithic sparse, qcow2 and raw. You can convert using VBoxManage or qemu-img to this formats Marc Morata | Senior Support Engineer | Abiquo | +34 93 322 00 44 | marc.morata at abiquo.com On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Matt Keating <Matt_Keating at dennis.co.uk>wrote:> Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM? > As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would like > to migrate some to a KVM server. > > Thanks in advance. > > *Matt Keating > **Linux System Admin > * > > *Dennis Interactive > *30 Cleveland St, London, W1T 4JD > Tel: 020 7907 6823 (direct line) > Fax: 020 7907 6600 (fax) > > P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > NOTE: The information in this email is confidential and may be legally > privileged, unless stated to the contrary. If you are not the intended > recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate that information. > Any opinions or comments are personal to the writer and do not represent > the official view of Dennis Publishing Ltd. If you have received this email > and are not a named addressee, please contact itdirector at dennis.co.ukimmediately by reply email and then delete this message from your system. > Please do not copy it or use it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to > any other person. > Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any > virus, or other defects, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure > that they are virus free and no responsibility is accepted by Dennis > Publishing Ltd for any loss or damage arising from the receipt or use > thereof. > Company registered in England No. 1138891 > Registered office: 30, Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JD > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20100726/65044314/attachment-0004.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4825 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20100726/65044314/attachment-0002.jpg>
I have successfully migrated VM`s from ESXi to KVM. To convert disk I use next command: qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 dist-flat.vmdk disk.img You also can use raw instead of qcow2. But I have some troubles with MS Windows machines. It falls to BSoD caused by lame disk drivers. Mon 26 July 2010 20:05:45 Matt Keating wrote:> Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM? > As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would like > to migrate some to a KVM server. > > Thanks in advance. > > Matt Keating > Linux System Admin-- Yours sincerely Sergiy Yegorov RHCT -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20100726/2c28caa6/attachment-0002.sig>
> > Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM? > As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would > like > to migrate some to a KVM server. > > Thanks in advance. > > Matt Keating > Linux System AdminYes. Using qemu you can convert from .vmdk to qcow(2) or raw for instance. Alexander