On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:25:54 PM CDT, Ken Roberts wrote:
Sorry for the user query but I'm not finding expertise on the
Linux mailing lists I belong to. The web site says one-off user
questions are OK.
I have a few VM images on Parallels 8 for Mac. I want them to
be on KVM/Linux.
Some of the images are Linux, but the critical ones are a few
types of Windows. I don't want to trash my licenses.
I noticed that kvm-img has a parallels format option, and it
seems to work while the conversion is going on. I've tried
kvm-img to convert to qcow2 and to raw, both cases the image
converts but the disk is not bootable. The only file the
kvm-img doesn't immediately fail on is the one that contains the
data.
More details on "not bootable" would be nice. Do you get a blue screen? Seabios screen? You may need to prep the image before you convert it (google mergeide).
The best answer to my problem is to find out how to make the disk bootable.
The next best answer is to find out if there is a reliable
migration path, even if it means going to VMware first.
Also, if VMware is a necessary intermediate point, it would
help to know which VMware format to use for best results.
I'm not a KVM expert, I've made some VMs on LVM and installed
Linux on them with bridged networking, that's about the extent
of it. For the record that was insanely simple.
Thanks.
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