You can use qemi-img to convert back to vmdk files.

I've used tools like Aconis in the (long) past to stream images between
vmware server and esx. Clonezilla will probably. HDclone has a vmdk mode.
If you get the vmdk files on a PC with vmware workstation you can probably
check they work, then export it to the vmware node.

Usually the biggest issue it removing any virtual drivers.

Nicholas

On 8 October 2015 at 09:19, Jan Vlach <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> saving and restoring image with booted clonezilla[1] might work for you.
> You might also use dd over ssh to send the image directly. Dd is "sharp"
> tool, try it on testing VMs first ...
>
> [1] http://clonezilla.org/
>
> HTH,
> Jan
>
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 04:08:42PM -0400, Mark Creamer wrote:
> > Hi, I have a KVM vm running Linux on a SmartOS host that I would like to
> > move back to VMware so I can have that host run exclusively zones. This
> is
> > really easy in VMware converter when the guest is running Windows but it
> > fails on a Linux guest when I try "Powered On Machine" as the source. If
> I
> > try 3rd party virtual machine as source, it will convert from common
> > virtual hard drive files like VHD, but not sure if I can extract that
> > somehow from a zone. Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> 
> 



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