How about the opposite method? This because of the need to migrate old machines to virtual machines in Vmware until RHEL5.4 Beta has been released as a stable virtual(kvm) platform. TIA Poul ons, 15 07 2009 kl. 08:50 +0100, skrev Richard W.M. Jones: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:39:45PM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > > Is this the mailing list to ask about issues/problems migrating VMware guests > > to run on qemu-kvm, etc.? > > > > If not, please point me to an appropriate mailing list? > > Yes this is good. > > I've actually been playing with manual migration of guests from VMWare > recently. This is what I do: > > (1) Export the guest in OVF format (File -> Export -> Export OVF Template) > > (2) Convert the *.vmdk file (disk image) into a raw file: > > qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw *.vmdk image.raw > > (3) Boot the raw image using libvirt. I create a libvirt > configuration by hand, but IIRC there is now a tool which does this > automatically. > > Some problems: VMWare tools should be uninstalled from the original > guest. Virtio drivers should be installed in the new guest (this is > very complex to do for existing guests, which is why we are writing > the virt-v2v tool to automate it). > > The virt-v2v tool will be ready in a few weeks. You can follow > progress on it here: > > http://libguestfs.org > > Rich. > -- Poul Kristensen IT-Konsulent / IT-Consultant Det Kongelige Bibliotek | The Royal Library IT-afdelingen | Information Technology P.O. Box 2149 | DK-1016 København K tel +45 3347 4586 | pok@xxxxx | www.kb.dk Besøgsadresse | Visiting address | Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1 Leveringsadresse Delivery address | Christians Brygge 8 | 1219 København K EAN 5798 000 79 52 97 | Bank 8109 101111-4 | CVR 28 98 88 42 IBAN DK9881090001011114 | Swiftcode JYBADKKK _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
