is moving a vmware guest image to bhyve POSSIBLE?

[James B. Byrne]

On Fri, March 15, 2019 14:05, Kirk Coombs wrote:
>
>
>> On Mar 14, 2019, at 9:28 AM, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to move a vmware guest image (whatever it is
>> called) to byhive?  What is the conversion process if this
>> is at all possible?
>
> I haven't tried it, but perhaps with qemu-img? From
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve: <https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve:>
>

> Kirk

I am awaiting delivery of the vmware image.  I will try out the
instructions at the bhyve site when I have something to work with.

In the meantime, as a trial, I am attempting to copy a KVM vm running
CentOS-6 from its CentOS host to a bhyve instance on FreeBSD-11.1. The
source KVM guest is already in raw format but, it consists of two 32
GB virtual disks which themselves are lvm volumes on the host.  I am
somewhat perplexed as to how to proceed.  I do not wish to disturb the
existing vm on its host, just use it as a source for the transfer
experiment.

I have considered using vmware vCenter Converter for the Linux side
and then using the vm to bhyve instructions on FreeBSD.  At the moment
I cannot even get a new CentOS bhyve vm to boot so I have doubts about
getting something this complex to work.


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