Re: Vmware to KVM - possible?

[Marc Morata <marc.morata@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are using ESX/i remember that this hypervisor uses 2 kinds of disk type (in 4.0.x). VMDK monolithic flat and VMDK monolithic sparse. This disks types are directly supported from kvm.

Monolithic flat is compounded for 2 files. 
  * disk.vmdk is a text file with disk info
  * disk-flat.vmdk is a raw disk

You can load disk-flat.vmdk directly in kvm. 



Marc Morata | Senior Support Engineer | Abiquo | +34 93 322 00 44 | marc.morata@xxxxxxxxxx

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Is it possible to convert a VMWare image to KVM?
> As I have been building a few test machines on Vmware Fusion and would
> like
> to migrate some to a KVM server.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Matt Keating
> Linux System Admin

Yes. Using qemu you can convert from .vmdk to qcow(2) or raw for instance.

Alexander

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