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...
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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...
When the virtual machine requires a high-speed timer, the requirement is
usually met by /dev/rtc on the host. In some circumstances, /dev/rtc is
unavailable, leading to slowness in the guest.
The main symptom is that the virtual machine's clock fails to keep time
properly. In addition, applications that are timed by the virtual machine's
clock, such as Windows menu animations, may also run slowly. Applications that
don't use the timer to delay their execution run at normal speed.
Note: Read more...