[Modularit-users] VMWare to Xen

[Luis Gonzalo Aller Arias]

Sorry! I send it to the wrong list! O:)

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Luis Gonzalo Aller Arias
<gonzalo at foton.es>wrote:

> 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
>> http://www.modularit.org
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