Comment by karlmdavis

karlmdavis Apr 18, 2014 parent

I did just that when I switched my server from ESXi (which used the same formats). For me, the vmware2libvirt command from Ubuntu's virt-goodies package did the trick.

I documented my transition in some of the sections on this page: https://justdavis.com/karl/it/davis/servers/eddings/vms.html

awda Apr 20, 2014

Thanks, this was very helpful. Here's what I did (converting VMware Workstation VM):

  1) Followed rwmj's guide to setting up a br0 device for libvirt in Fedora.
  2) Deleted all vmware snapshots. sync. sync.
  3) Grabbed vmware2libvirt from Ubuntu (it's just a standalone python script) and
     used it with --bridge br0 -f foo.vmx > foo.xml.
  4) Converted my vmdk to raw with qemu-img, moved it to /var/lib/libvirtd per your
     instructions
  5) Edited my xml to point to the right disk, use the qemu/raw driver, use the right
     path for kvm (/urs/bin/qemu-kvm on Fedora).
  6) Import into libvirt with virsh define foo.xml
  7) virsh start foo

It just works! Great. And virt-viewer over qemu+ssh is great; I run this VM on a headless box on the LAN from my desktop.

JoeAltmaier Apr 20, 2014

Helpful, thanks. But I'm reminded of my brother's email about how simple it was to create a Linux kernel for a tv-controller - 3 pages of build instructions, ending with "So easy!" What is it about Linux folks ...

awda Apr 18, 2014

Thanks, this looks very helpful.

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