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Re: [Xen-users] Xen Cloud Platform: Import VMWare Guest

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen Cloud Platform: Import VMWare Guest
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:07:13 +0200
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 07:38:13PM -0000, ryanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Forgive me if this has been answered already, but after a day of Googling
> I either can't find what I'm looking for, or I'm throwing the wrong terms
> at Google.
> 
> Note: I'm new to Xen, but not virtualization in general.
> 
> I recently downloaded and installed XCP 1.0RC3 (Xen Cloud Platform
> http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html) onto a spare HP pizzabox.
> 
> I successfully gotten a Win Server 2k3 VM built and running on it so I've
> at least verified that the system is operating normally.
> 
> I've also gotten OpenXenManager to talk to the XCP platform (a little
> buggy, but it works).
> 
> I now want to transfer/convert over an existing VMWare guest from another
> system onto the XCP system.  I've found plenty of documentation on
> converting the VMDK to an IMG via Qemu, which I have done; however, I
> can't seem to figure out how to get it onto the XCP system.
> 
> It seems that the only interfaces I've got to actually interact with the
> XCP box is a) OpenXenManager and b) Dom0.  Is there not a "bare metal"
> interface for me to get down to the actual disk so I can import the VMWare
> image into (what I assume to be) a LVM partition?  ... Or am I going about
> this import the wrong way?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Hey,

Did you take a look at Citrix XenServer 5.6FP1 docs? XCP 1.0 pretty much
matches that..

-- Pasi


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