converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, January 09, 2008 a las 11:06:28AM +0000, Kimi escribió:

> I think the only part that needs converting is the VMDK files which is
> the virtual hard disc drive. I'm not entirely sure if qemu-img handles
> split VMDK files, I would be surprised if that was the case. I also
> think the image is a sparse one go by the s in two of the VMDK's file
> name. You can all but try.

Thx for the answer; this is how the running VM sees the disk:

# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 6442 MB, 6442450944 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 783 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1           5       40131   83  Linux
/dev/sda2               6          68      506047+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3              69         783     5743237+  83  Linux

maybe it is an idea to just punch the complete disk /dev/sda
with dd(1) to a file outside the VM and convert/use this with
Qemu?

> better place to have asked maybe is the qemu malling list available on qemu.org

this is not a mailing list, but a BBS with web interface; I asked
there already other stuff in the past w/o any answers; but will
do give it a try again;

> have you (anyone?) tried running VMware Player under FreeBSD's linux emulation?

not me;

	matthias

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