Converting from VMDK to RAW

[Justin Holcomb]

Victor,


One thing to keep in mind with either of those tools is that they do not know how to properly extract data from that latest VMware snapshot state. Both tools will produce a raw file that contains the first snapshot state.


Also if you roll back the VMware snapshot, sometimes it can render the system unbootable. I have experienced this with FreeBSD ZFS installations. The VMware snapshot is not a true snapshot of the disk. So I recommend making a backup of the VMs before converting them over.


Best of luck!


Justin D Holcomb

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From: owner-freebsd-virtualization at freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-virtualization at freebsd.org> on behalf of J. Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2016 7:37:23 AM
To: Victor Sudakov
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Subject: Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW

I'm going to assume you have virtual box where VBoxManage is a tool that you can use to convert to raw. If not qemu-img convert can also do the same and is available via ports.

Either way you should be able to get a raw image out of either.

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On Aug 7, 2016, at 08:11, Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:

Colleagues,

I would like to convert some FreeBSD VMs from VMware to bhyve. Which
is the best way to convert virtual disks from the VMDK to the RAW
format (which I think is the format bhyve uses)?


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