Hi, if this is not the right list for question the give me any link. I am not clear as the term I want to know. I have a virtualization setup(kvm) where few guest Operating Systems are running in separate LVM partitions. Here is output of lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/abcd/lvm1' [100.00 GiB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/abcd/lvm2' [150.00 GiB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/abcd/lvm3' [50.00 GiB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/abcd/lvm4' [100.00 GiB] inherit I want all these OSeS running inside LVMs to be into a vmdk image. I came across many tutorials on internet which talk of converting a vmdk to qcow2 image using qemu-img. I tried vmware-converter-client also on a test machine which actually failed. I want to convert all the above LVMs to vmdk image which I can give to some people who will do experiments on the things installed in the VMs as above on a Vmware environment or Xen even. So what way should I go. I came across a command qemu-img convert -c -f raw -O vmdk /dev/abcd/lvm4 /backup/lvm4.img Will the above affect the lvm4. I do not want the VM running on original server to at all loose its any of the content but also have a vmdk file for each of the Guest OS which is running on kvm as mentioned above. What should I google exactly I am not clear with this part. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
