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

[Sharath Babu <sharathx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hint????

Hmm........
Not so easy to explain in just couple of lines.

here is what you can do......

[root@localhost vmdk]# fdisk -l -u -C 592 linux.raw

Disk sharath: 0 MB, 0 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 592 cylinders, total 0 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

  Device Boot     
Start        
End      Blocks   Id  System
linux1  
*         
63      208844     
104391   83  Linux
linux2         
208845     7341704    
3566430   83  Linux
linux3        
7341705     8385929     
522112+  82  Linux swap

Consider that we have to extract linux2, which is ext3
For this remember the formula (End - Start  + 1) = count
For linux2: Start = 208845 = skip(in "dd" command)
                 End = 7341704
So we have count=(7341704 - 208845 + 1) = 7132860

Now there we are, we have all the necessary info to "peel" the required partition.
Now give the following command
[root@localhost vmdk]# dd if=linux.raw of=linuxpartition.raw bs=512 skip=208845 count=7132860
dd: writing `linuxpartition.raw': No space left on device
1760697+0 records in
1760696+0 records out

Thats it......
we have linuxpartition.raw which should be mounted
[root@localhost vmdk]# mount -o loop -t ext3 linuxpartition.raw /mnt/vmdisk/


Hope, thats a hint...... ;-)

Regards,

On 10/5/05, Sven Uebelacker <uebelacker@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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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