Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW

2016-08-07 Thread Matt Thyer
I would suggest that you either: - Remove all snapshots; or - Clone the latest state of your VM to produce a VM with no snapshots before converting Matt Thyer On 8 August 2016 at 00:46, Justin Holcomb wrote: > Victor, > > > One thing to keep in mind with either of those

Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW

2016-08-07 Thread Justin Holcomb
Victor, One thing to keep in mind with either of those tools is that they do not know how to properly extract data from that latest VMware snapshot state. Both tools will produce a raw file that contains the first snapshot state. Also if you roll back the VMware snapshot, sometimes it can

Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW

2016-08-07 Thread J. Hellenthal
I'm going to assume you have virtual box where VBoxManage is a tool that you can use to convert to raw. If not qemu-img convert can also do the same and is available via ports. Either way you should be able to get a raw image out of either. -- Onward!, Jason Hellenthal, Systems & Network

Converting from VMDK to RAW

2016-08-07 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, I would like to convert some FreeBSD VMs from VMware to bhyve. Which is the best way to convert virtual disks from the VMDK to the RAW format (which I think is the format bhyve uses)? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru