[Modularit-users] VMWare to Xen

[Luis Gonzalo Aller Arias]

Holap!,

Estas cosas, las pondreis el en wiki del RM? (o como minimo al twiki ¿?)

Aunque no sea en la zona principal,... una de temas de interes, con un poco
de organización?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Agustín Benito <abenito at grupocpd.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think this can be interesting:
>
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:50:10 -0500
> From: James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Converting VMWare 2008 to xen domU
> To: xen-users at lists.xensource.com
> Message-ID: <1235094610.21295.62.camel at storage.obrien-pifer.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:46 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 14:00 -0800, Brian Krusic wrote:
> > > Ahh, I see.
> > >
> > > Well, I'll try it and give some feedback.
> > >
> > > - Brian
>
> I got this working. I'm not sure what my original problem was, but I
> have a hunch. I think when I originally ftp'ed the vmdk I forgot to make
> sure I ftp'ed it in binary mode. That's my hunch, but here's what I did
> to get it working.
>
> My coworker built the VM using VMWare Server 2.0. My server runs VMWare
> Server 1.0.
>
> 1) ftp'ed entire VMWare VM to my server running VMWare 1.0 (Windows)
> 2) Ran VMWare converter and converted it to a 1.0 VM with a growable
> disk
> 3) Ran vmware-vdiskmanager and created a flat disk file (think I could
> have done this as part of step 2)
> 4) ftp'ed flat disk file in binary mode to xen server
> 5) ran qemu-img to convert it do a growable qemu img file
> 6) ran cp --sparse=always of the disk file so it's not using all the
> space
> 7) boot with xen
>
> That's it.
>
> James
>
> Saludos
>
> --
> Agustín Benito Bethencourt (Toscalix)
> abenito at grupocpd.com
> ModularIT Community Manager
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