On Tuesday, September 04, 2012 11:26:49 AM Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i want to convert a sles 11 sp2 64bit system (running on VMWare Server
> 1.09) to libvirt format. Host OS is SLES 11 SP2 64bit. I tried
> "virt-convert --os-variant=sles11 sles_11_vmx/ sles_11_kvm/" .
> 
> This is what i got:
> Generating output in 'virt-image' format to sles_11_kvm//
> Converting disk 'tomcat_6.vmdk' to type raw...
> ERROR    Couldn't convert disks: Disk conversion failed with exit status 1:
> VMDK: Not supported image type "twoGbMaxExtentFlat". qemu-img: Could not
> open '/var/lib/kvm/images/sles_11_vmx/tomcat_6.vmdk': Operation not
> supported qemu-img: Could not open
> '/var/lib/kvm/images/sles_11_vmx/tomcat_6.vmdk'
> 
> It seems that virt-convert does not like the 2GB files form VMWare Server.
> 
> How can i convert my system from VMWare Server 1.09 to libvirt format ?

I don't know what libvirt format is, but to get a raw file if it's Linux:
vmware-vdiskmanager -r <source.vmdk> -t 2 <dest.raw>

At least I think that should work... That might still be a vmdk file, but it 
should work with qemu-img. You might try -t 0 if you are short on space.


> 
> 
> Thanks for any hints.
> 
> 
> Bernd
> 
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