Re: Migrating an existing system with a different OS

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On Fri, 2017-06-02 at 10:04 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:01:58AM +0200, Walter H. wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm using Windows with several virtual machines (VMware);
> > is there a way to use these virtual machines with Fedora as host OS?
> 
> Yes. Qemu-kvm, the native virtualization system used in Fedora can
> run vmware disk images. Or, better, you can convert them to qcow2
> images, which is the best native format. Like this:
> 
> 
> kvm-img convert -O qcow2 mywindowsvm.vmdk mywindowsvm.qcow2

That should be qemu-img, not kvm-img. The QCOW2 format is good for
things like snapshots, but sometimes a raw image can be faster. it
depends on your application.

poc
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