Re: [Xen-users] Converting VMWare 2008 to xen domU

[Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the feedback, very helpful.

I'll let you know how mine goes.

- Brian




On Feb 19, 2009, at 5:50 PM, James Pifer wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:46 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 14:00 -0800, Brian Krusic wrote:
> > > Ahh, I see.
> > >
> > > Well, I'll try it and give some feedback.
> > >
> > > - Brian
> I got this working. I'm not sure what my original problem was, but I
> have a hunch. I think when I originally ftp'ed the vmdk I forgot to  
> make
> sure I ftp'ed it in binary mode. That's my hunch, but here's what I  
> did
> to get it working.
>
> My coworker built the VM using VMWare Server 2.0. My server runs  
> VMWare
> Server 1.0.
>
> 1) ftp'ed entire VMWare VM to my server running VMWare 1.0 (Windows)
> 2) Ran VMWare converter and converted it to a 1.0 VM with a growable
> disk
> 3) Ran vmware-vdiskmanager and created a flat disk file (think I could
> have done this as part of step 2)
> 4) ftp'ed flat disk file in binary mode to xen server
> 5) ran qemu-img to convert it do a growable qemu img file
> 6) ran cp --sparse=always of the disk file so it's not using all the
> space
> 7) boot with xen
>
> That's it.
>
> James
>
>
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