I have used this method successfully several times, but the problem is,
this only converts the format of the image, it doesn't do any tweaks to
the actual image needed to boot it in the new environment. Windows for
example, is likely to blue screen because it's not very good at
detecting boot disk controller changes.
This is what the merge-ide script does, it relaxes the Windows checks on
boot for new disk controllers. Search for my post about how I converted
my Windows guest from ESX to ovirt.
On 2/19/2014 9:23 PM, Lei Cui wrote:
Or used #qemu-img convert esxxxx.vmdk imagexxx.img to finish the conversion
-Lei
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From: "Lei Cui" <[email protected]>
To: "Maurice James" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:49:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
Hi, Maurice,
Have you tried virt-convert to convert vmx image to virt-image(raw or qcow2)
format?
Which support off-line conversion without a running ESX server
-Lei
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From: "Maurice James" <[email protected]>
To: "Bob Doolittle" <[email protected]>, "Ted Miller" <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:59:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
Forgive my noobness, but are you telling me that I can convert an ESX image
without the existence of a running ESX server? If someone gave me an ESX
image on a DVD or hard drive I could then use virt-v2v to convert it?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Doolittle [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:54 PM
To: Maurice James; 'Ted Miller'; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
Yes.
So:
VMware non-ESX -> ESX, using VMware's tool, then ESX -> RHEV using virt-v2v
no?
If this is viable, it's easy to understand why nobody wants to put effort
into supporting a bevy of VMware VM formats, when there's a tool already
available to convert to one and they can focus on it.
-Bob
On 02/19/2014 05:52 PM, Maurice James wrote:
I want to change it from VMware to RHEV/oVirt
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Doolittle [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:51 PM
To: Maurice James; 'Ted Miller'; [email protected]
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My recollection is that VMware provides a converter to change your
VMware non-ESX VMs into ESX format.
Do you have to buy ESX to gain access to it?
-Bob
On 02/19/2014 05:46 PM, Maurice James wrote:
I even open a feature request that they closed pretty quickly with
WONTFIX
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062910 . Why is this
such a touchy issue?
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Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:28 PM
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On 2/9/2014 4:27 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 02/09/2014 10:28 PM, Maurice James wrote:
The instructions assume that I have an ESX instance to connect to.
How do I do this with an already exported vmware image with no esx
available to connect to? I have a turnkey drupal vm in ovf format
-----Original Message-----
From: Itamar Heim [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 2:24 PM
To: Maurice James; 'users'
Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
On 02/09/2014 07:02 PM, Maurice James wrote:
According to this
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1749.html
It does not do it
please review:
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterpri
s e _Virtua lization/3.3/html-single/V2V_Guide/index.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Itamar Heim [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 4:52 AM
To: Maurice James; 'users'
Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
On 02/08/2014 04:18 PM, Maurice James wrote:
I submitted an RFE to have vmware image conversion added to 3.5.
I think that is a key feature that is lacking. Im just trying to
get some eyes on it here.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062910
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can you comment on the gaps from virt-v2v which does this today
(in the bug as well).
thanks,
Itamar
iirc, you need an ESX currently.
Some of us are stuck without a way to try out ovirt because of this.
ESX is not the only platform that people run VMWare on. I am trying
to bring over VMs from an old VMWare Server setup on Centos 5. Works
fine, but there is no migration path. Other people may have VMs on
VMWare Workstation or other, older products. We just get told to go
fly a
kite?
If the only choice is to bring up a full-blown, working ESX instance,
I may bring up ESXi and stay there.
Ted Miller
Elkhart, IN
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