[PVE-User] VM windows 2008 issue.

Alain Péan alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr
Fri Jul 1 14:06:06 CEST 2011


Hi Muhammad,

See a recent thread on this list 'Vmware to Proxmox migration" and 
especially the answer from Ernst Holger. He meant to use the backup 
program from Vmware, to store the backup to a network share (NFS...), 
then use the backup program from proxmox, and the function 'restore', to 
restore the VM on Proxmox. Martin Maurer tested it and agreed it was the 
easiest solution.

For the growable image file, it seems it is possible to convert it with 
vmware vdisk-manager. See for example this thread :
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/155051

Alain

Le 01/07/2011 13:42, Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit :
> ok, thats sounds interesting and new. can you please tell me what do u 
> mean by exporting with VMWARE stuff ? unfortunately i am using VMware 
> harddisk which increase the size when data inserted. :(. and i think 
> we can not convert that type of harddisk with Qemu converter. make me 
> right if mis-concept.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Laurent CARON 
> <lcaron at unix-scripts.info <mailto:lcaron at unix-scripts.info>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/07/2011 13:15, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>     > here is the status.
>     >
>     > VMware to KVM (migration)= not working (with 30 GB HD and 2 GB RAM)
>     >
>     > Fresh installation = worked (with 20gb HD and 1GB RAM with same DVD
>     > image deployed on VMWARE)
>     >
>     > now problem is i am stuck in migration from VMware to KVM
>     haven't tried
>     > migration from real machine
>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I would suggest the following:
>
>     - Export the image of the VMWare VM using VMWare stuff
>     - Convert it with qemu-img
>            - qemu-img convert -O raw input_disk output_disk
>     - d the output_disk file onto the device
>
>     I had to do this on some VMs which were exhibiting the same black
>     screen
>     you're getting.
>
>     Hope this helps.
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