Sorry for the user query but I'm not finding expertise on the Linux mailing 
lists I belong to.  The web site says one-off user questions are OK.

I have a few VM images on Parallels 8 for Mac. I want them to be on KVM/Linux.

Some of the images are Linux, but the critical ones are a few types of Windows. 
 I don't want to trash my licenses.

I noticed that kvm-img has a parallels format option, and it seems to work 
while the conversion is going on.  I've tried kvm-img to convert to qcow2 and 
to raw, both cases the image converts but the disk is not bootable.  The only 
file the kvm-img doesn't immediately fail on is the one that contains the data.

The best answer to my problem is to find out how to make the disk bootable.

The next best answer is to find out if there is a reliable migration path, even 
if it means going to VMware first.

Also, if VMware is a necessary intermediate point, it would help to know which 
VMware format to use for best results.

I'm not a KVM expert, I've made some VMs on LVM and installed Linux on them 
with bridged networking, that's about the extent of it.  For the record that 
was insanely simple.

Thanks.

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Ken Roberts
k...@9ci.com
ken.roberts163 @ skype
605-222-5758 @ cell


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