Thomas Laus wrote:
[dd]
> > >
> > > Probably I don't need any converters at all because the *-flat.vmdk is
> > > already a RAW image.
> >
> > I've even been able to reduce the on-disk size of the image from 10G
> > to 3,4G with "dd conv=sparse" without any ill effects.
> >
> You have done a lot
> Victor Sudakov wrote:
> >
> > I have downloaded the VM disk from VMware ESXi and the image consists
> > of two files: myhost-flat.vmdk and myhost.vmdk. The latter is a small
> > text file containing meta-information about the disk. The former looks
> > like a RAW disk, at least I can mdconfig it
Victor Sudakov wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the VM disk from VMware ESXi and the image consists
> of two files: myhost-flat.vmdk and myhost.vmdk. The latter is a small
> text file containing meta-information about the disk. The former looks
> like a RAW disk, at least I can mdconfig it and mount t
Thomas Laus wrote:
> >
> > 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)?
> >
> I have used /devel/vmdktool to do the job in the past. It has always
>
reebsd-virtualizat...@freebsd.org <
> owner-freebsd-virtualizat...@freebsd.org> on behalf of J. Hellenthal <
> jhellent...@dataix.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2016 7:37:23 AM
> To: Victor Sudakov
> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Converting from V
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on behalf of J. Hellenthal
Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2016 7:37:23 AM
To: Victor Sudakov
Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW
I'm going to assume you have virtual box where VBoxManage is a tool that you
can use to conve
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.
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Onward!,
Jason Hellenthal,
Systems & Network