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Re: [Xen-users] porting vmware's vmdk to domU

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] porting vmware's vmdk to domU
From: Sven Uebelacker <uebelacker@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:17:44 +0200
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Thank you all, qemu-img is a good hint!

With vmware-mount.pl I had my problems as described by Sharath.

Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2005 00:40 schrieb Sharath Babu:
> I believe qemu-img works better in this case and much more easier to use.
> #qemu-img convert -f vmdk /path/filename.vmdk -O raw /path/filename.raw

This works although I use VMWare5... Just can't use my snapshots.

> # fdisk -l /path/filename.raw

Well, a known qemu error message occurs "You must set cylinders." 

> Make sure to peel off the required partition from this image to a new
> image, because you cannot mount a disk, you can only mount a partition.

Can you give me a hint how to do that?

Sven.

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