Hi All, Okay. Now I am confused. I have a bunch of virtual machines running under Virtual Box 3.2.12. I want to run them under KVM and drop Virtual Box from these systems. Supposedly "qemu-img convert" now supports direct conversion from vdi to whatever KVM uses. So I fired up the man page and got really confused. Then I fired up Google and got worse confused. Might I impose on some kind individual to write down a sample run string that would show me how to do this? Many thanks, -T
> Hi All, > > Okay. Now I am confused. > > I have a bunch of virtual machines running under Virtual Box 3.2.12. > I want to run them under KVM and drop Virtual Box from these > systems. > > Supposedly "qemu-img convert" now supports direct conversion > from vdi to whatever KVM uses. So I fired up the man page and > got really confused. Then I fired up Google and got worse > confused. > > Might I impose on some kind individual to write down a sample > run string that would show me how to do this? > > Many thanks, > -T >Is it as easy as? qemu-img convert -f vdi oldImage.vdi -O qcow2 newImage.qcow Do I need a ton of disk space to go to a full hard drive then back to a small virtual hard drive? Do I need the Virtual Box XML file for anything or just the VDI? Many thanks, -T
On 4/22/11 10:18 PM, MargoAndTodd wrote:> I have a bunch of virtual machines running under Virtual Box 3.2.12. > I want to run them under KVM and drop Virtual Box from these > systems.Hi. I am curious why you are making the switch out of VirtualBox. We are beginning to test it with the new VirtBox 4.0.x series now that it has been open sourced. We currently run Xen, VMWare (both Server and ESX) and a test KVM box and are always looking for others experiences. Sincerely, William "Bill" Kern