Hi, You can read some of these posts and maybe find some helpful info from other people in the same situation
http://ewen.mcneill.gen.nz/blog/entry/2010-11-25-xen-to-kvm/ http://panoskrt.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/migrating-xen-virtual-machine-to-kvm/ http://cjfearnley.sys-con.com/node/1620828/mobile http://warutblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-migrate-xen-guest-virtual.html Hope this helps. On 6 July 2011 16:41, samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm struggling with a few issues converting xen to kvm images. I know this > might not be the right mailing list to ask but I'm sure there's someone that > can point me to the right mailing list or documentation. So, first of all, > apologies fot the Off-Topic post. > > In my lab environment I have KVM-only nodes and I'm interested in porting > Xen images. I've created Xen images either with dd inside the virtual Xen > machine or just taking the xen disk file. In both cases, doing and fdisk of > the resulting image I got: > > Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by > w(rite) > You must set cylinders. > You can do this from the extra functions menu. > > I've tried 2 methods: > 1)just press w(rite) in fdisk which would insert a valid flag number > 2) using sfidk to add a manual flag number (echo '1' | sfdisk image.img) > > No matter what I use, the resulting file disk seems to not work and the > partition table seems broken. I've tried to continue installing grub and a > working kernel in the resulting image.img so they can be boot from KVM but I > always got No Boot Device available. > > Can anyone tell what shall be done with a Xen disc image to be ported to a > KVM environment? > > Thank you very much in advance, > Samuel Osorio. > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > -- Daniel Molina, Cloud Technology Engineer/Researcher Major Contributor OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing www.OpenNebula.org | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
