similar to: Can not convert LVM over two vmdk files

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

Dear All, While trying to run kvm VM using vmdk disk on 6.4 , I got into the following error, error: Failed to create domain from vmdkvm.xml error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm: -drive file=/mnt/vmdkTOKVM/vmdkTOKVM.vmdk,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=vmdk,cache=none: 'vmdk' invalid format upon further digging I came across this thread (

Hi all, I have a RHEL6.1 qemu-kvm hypervisor running a raw image that I need for various reasons to convert to vmdk. I used this process: qemu-img convert server3.img -O vmdk server3.vmdk Then I edited the XML file (/etc/libvirt/qemu/server3.xml) like so: <devices> <emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver

With VMWare (server), you can pre-allocate your image in several vmdk files. But I have not bee able to mount that in guestfs. On file (e.g. guest.vmdk) is a text file pointing to all the other files (e.g. guest-f001.vmdk, guest-f002.vmdk,...). I tried the following scenarios without success: 1- just adding the base vmdk: add_drive guest.vmdk 2- adding all the files: add_drive guest-f001.vmdk

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:35:51AM +0000, Boylan, Ross wrote: > Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a > vmdk file? >From my quick test (refer below), seems like you can at-least use VMDK as a backing file. > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots#Desired_functionality seems to > say no, since it says "'virsh snapshot', which requires all

In case the appliance is disabled at configure, then all the phony guests will not be built during the 'make check' time. Since the tests already handle an empty windows.vmdk fine (in case ntfs-3g is not available), then just create it empty in this case. Reported by: Martin Kletzander. --- v2v/Makefile.am | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/v2v/Makefile.am

Hi all, As we are doing plan for testing libguestfs, I have a question about vmdk support for libguestfs. In Fedora 12, we can successfully manage a vmdk image via guestfish(add -> run -> mkfs -> mount -> ...). But in RHEL6, for qemu-kvm can not boot with a vmdk image, libguestfs can not manage vmdk either. So is it true that vmdk is only supported by upstream libguestfs but not

Does libvirt support snapshotting when the virtual disk comes from a vmdk file? http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Snapshots#Desired_functionality seems to say no, since it says "'virsh snapshot', which requires all disk images to be qcow2". OTOH, man virsh, http://libvirt.org/formatsnapshot.html, and http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks seem to indicate more

Just a quick fyi... We''ve recently added support for blktap along with support for managing virtual disks (disk file images). There are some difference from a linux dom0. This is available in b101 @ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/sol_ex_dvd_1/ This allows you to create and manage vmdk and vdi (Virtual Box) disk files. By default, virt-install will now use a vmdk vdisk when

virt-v2v is not an option for me as all I have are the VMDK images and don't have the VMware software to covert to OVA first. I really don't understand what is going wrong. I also found https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/20511 and that still doesn't work. Both /etc/fstab and grub.conf refer to the LABEL and not any device name. In the boot process I see it explicitly says it

Hi, I am using VirtualBox on Ubuntu Linux. I want to use the vmdk imag created on this VirtualBox, on a cloud system that uses xen as its hypervisor. What changes need to be made in vmdk image? Thanks, Raj. -- The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com

Commit 588af1953e5f7ab74009b9175cc5d3efb8bb651a started with a very conservative list of permitted backing formats (just "raw" or "qcow2"). We can allow almost any format permitted by qemu, but this commit just adds "vmdk" to this whitelist. --- src/create.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/create.c b/src/create.c index

Good evening, I understand that NTFS & VMDK do not relate to Solaris or ZFS, but I was wondering if anyone has any experience of checking the alignment of data blocks through that stack? I have a VMware ESX 4.0 host using storage presented over NFS from ZFS filesystems (recordsize 4KB). Within virtual machine VMDK files, I have formatted NTFS filesystems, block size 4KB. Dedup is turned on.

Hi, Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) OS in kvmguestosimage.ova or kvmguestosimage.vmdk format as I am trying to restore it in AWS by referring to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/ article as per the below supported file format. [1] Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) [2] Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) [3] Virtual Hard Disk (VHD/VHDX) [4] raw Also

i try to use a older vmdk image on kvm it seems to work on a debian kvm box but not on a centos 6 box the kvm on centos says no bootable device but on debian it boots fine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20130722/4ad2a2d0/attachment-0006.html>

Hi, I would like to backup my Virtual Box VM folder. I have VDI and VMDK files in there. I am told I have to shutdown those virtual machines first in order for rsync to copy them correctly. Is this correct ? Thanks, Dan

Hi Anyone tried tap:vmdk ? Can I use it to use vmware images/appliances over Xen ? Any sample config and some details on any specific procedure would help. Any comment on expected performance..etc. ? Any other proceudre(s)/steps to get a VMWare appliance/VM to runing under Xen. Thanks -nb _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing

Hi, I will try to explain my case, I hope this is rigth place to do it. My goal is migrate an Ubuntu 9.10 64bit VMWare VM from a Win2k8 64bit server to an Ubuntu 9.10 64bit server. Following some tutorials I've got a .qcow2 file from .vmdk and a .xml file from .vmx file Running virsh define/start all was fine, but VM is unaccessible: no ping, no ssh, also from hosting server. This is

Good afternoon, I was wondering if anyone has any in site as to how to import a VMware vmdk into xVM on OpenSolaris 2009.06 (xVM 3.1). I have a VMware VM created on VMware Server 2.0 and would like to move it over to this xVM server. I appreciate any advice anyone may have. Cheers, -Chris -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Hi! Is there any experience of converting vmware''s vmdk file to a domU image? Maybe via extracting vmdk (how?) -> build tar -> untar in domU? That would be very nice despite replacing the original kernel with a self-built one and worthy to write a script... :) Cheers, Sven. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com