Oron Peled wrote: > It looks like there are solutions for converting VMWare disk images to > KVM (Qemu) disk images. Few (untested) links: > <snip> > The Virtual manager itself allows me to import VMWare images. Haven't tried.
Besides, VMWare allows you to boot from an arbitrary CDROM (read: Linux LiveCD) along with any of its own disks, empty or already filled. The CD can be added and removed at any time (and boot from disk later on). Since a network connection also exists, there is nothing stopping me from raw copying the disk from an external device or file, or the other way around. So those limitations on what you can or can't do on disk images work only of those not familiar with dd and netcat. Being trapped, as I see it, is trashing my old computers, only to find out a month later, that I'm limited in some crucial way unless I upgrade to a 1G$ version. And then wish I stayed with my good old computer. By the way, I had a hard time finding out how to run VMPlayer from a raw disk image (made with dd), but it was obvious how to attach a "real disk". So I mounted my image on a loop device, gave VMPlayer the loop device's path, and off I went. I'm not even sure if I worked around one of their limitations. It was so easy, that I didn't waste my time on looking for a "straight way" to accomplish this. Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
