Some time ago we explained how to convert an .vmdk file to a XEN compatible RAW file, today we are going to review how to convert one .vmdk to a virtualbox compatible .vdi disk.
First, create a virtual disk from preallocated to growable as we already saw. I will use one XPSP2 vmware disk.
# vmware-vdiskmanager -r XPSP2.vmdk -t 0 hardrive-preallocated.vmdk
Convert the file again to a .bin file with the help of quemu like:
# qemu-img convert hhardrive-preallocated.vmdk hardrive-raw-file.bin
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VMware
Probably the funniest way of migrating a fully functional system is doing it while the system is up and running. You can migrate a live system to another remotely machine booted with a recovery cd that can be used to do a P2V (Physical to Virtual) or live system migration to other physical one.
To achive a network migration we can use the TCP/IP swiss army knife, NetCat (nc).
First, boot a virtual machine or physical one with a recovery cd (like wifislax), be sure to have a disks with same Read more...
Let's imagine you have a .vmdk file with a virtual machine data inside and you want to migrate this disks, to a Xen source virtual machine...
There are other "converters" provided by XEN, but this time we are going to do it manually.
First, we can convert a virtual disk from preallocated to growable with this tool from VMware:
# vmware-vdiskmanager -r vmware_image.vmdk -t 0 temporary_image.vmdk
Install qemu (on Debian apt-get install qemu). You will need the qemu-img disk image manipulation Read more...
I was trying to migrate a Solaris x86 VMware VM to Xen source, but after move all data and turn on the machine in XEN, I received this error message and a panic:
cannot mount root path
after some searches i found this solution in vmware communities, valid as well for me.
Let's imagine you have changed the default boot disk, as well as the SCSI controller, you have moved from VMware with a specific SCSI device to XEN with another different SCSI device, but your bootarchive looks like it was Read more...
Sometimes, if you modify the MBR of a x86 disk you can loose its content so you need to reinstall the grub again, for example after install a mixed linux/solarisx86 environment, or migrating a x86 physical machine to a virtualized environment.
You have two options to boot the system, both using the CD-Rom:
One is using the cdrom grub, to do that, press e after grub appears, and delete all the lines and add the next 3 lines:
root (hd0,2,a)
kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
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