Re: converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu

2008-01-09 Thread Kimi
On 09/01/2008, Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El día Wednesday, January 09, 2008 a las 11:06:28AM +, Kimi escribió: > > > I think the only part that needs converting is the VMDK files which is > > the virtual hard disc drive. I'm not entirely sure if qemu-img handles > > split VMDK

Re: converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu

2008-01-09 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 13:35:29 Matthias Apitz wrote: > maybe it is an idea to just punch the complete disk /dev/sda > with dd(1) to a file outside the VM and convert/use this with > Qemu? Yes, that's going to work. You'll be much better if boot (or switch) to single user mode to avoid write

Re: converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu

2008-01-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, January 09, 2008 a las 11:06:28AM +, Kimi escribió: > I think the only part that needs converting is the VMDK files which is > the virtual hard disc drive. I'm not entirely sure if qemu-img handles > split VMDK files, I would be surprised if that was the case. I also > think

Re: converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu

2008-01-09 Thread Kimi
On 09/01/2008, Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've a Zip archive with a VM which runs fine in VMPlayer on Linux; > it is just the contents of the directory and the VMWare files in this > like: > > $ unzip -t Evergreen_1.2.0_Gentoo_x86.zip > Archive: Evergreen_1.2.0_Gentoo