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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=700105513-01072011>Hi Alain, hi Muhammad,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=700105513-01072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Alain,
you got something wrong here. I appologize for having been short and
unprecise.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=700105513-01072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=700105513-01072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>What I
did: Do a Backup from within the windows Server with Microsoft built in
Backup program to an available cifs share (not VMware, not
nfs).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=700105513-01072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Create
the appropriate vm in proxmox with a Windows2008 ISO mounted as boot
cd.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=700105513-01072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Then
do a restore from within the windows rescue system from the cifs share mentioned
above.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=700105513-01072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>If you
need additional drivers (like virtio disk drivers for example) add another cd
and attach an ISO with the drivers.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=700105513-01072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=700105513-01072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>I
would not try to convert the disk images itself. You might run into trouble with
windows handling disk drivers very unflexible. Win2008 is far better than
Win2003 but still not flexible enough sometimes.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=700105513-01072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=700105513-01072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Regards. Holger</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>Von:</B> pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com
[mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com] <B>Im Auftrag von </B>Alain
Péan<BR><B>Gesendet:</B> Freitag, 1. Juli 2011 14:06<BR><B>An:</B>
pve-user@pve.proxmox.com<BR><B>Betreff:</B> Re: [PVE-User] VM windows 2008
issue.<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hi Muhammad,<BR><BR>See a recent thread on this list 'Vmware to
Proxmox migration" and especially the answer from Ernst Holger. He meant to use
the backup program from Vmware, to store the backup to a network share (NFS...),
then use the backup program from proxmox, and the function 'restore', to restore
the VM on Proxmox. Martin Maurer tested it and agreed it was the easiest
solution.<BR><BR>For the growable image file, it seems it is possible to convert
it with vmware vdisk-manager. See for example this thread :<BR><A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://communities.vmware.com/thread/155051">http://communities.vmware.com/thread/155051</A><BR><BR>Alain<BR><BR>Le
01/07/2011 13:42, Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit :
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:BANLkTik1aU=ZpM7z1T=+Z5xzfJftZTE-ig@mail.gmail.com
type="cite">ok, thats sounds interesting and new. can you please
tell me what do u mean by exporting with VMWARE stuff ? unfortunately i am
using VMware harddisk which increase the size when data inserted. :(. and
i think we can not convert that type of harddisk with Qemu converter. make me
right if mis-concept.
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<DIV>Thank you,<BR>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Laurent CARON <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:lcaron@unix-scripts.info"
moz-do-not-send="true">lcaron@unix-scripts.info</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV class=im>On 01/07/2011 13:15, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:<BR>> here
is the status.<BR>><BR>> VMware to KVM (migration)= not working (with
30 GB HD and 2 GB RAM)<BR>><BR>> Fresh installation = worked (with
20gb HD and 1GB RAM with same DVD<BR>> image deployed on
VMWARE)<BR>><BR>> now problem is i am stuck in migration from VMware
to KVM haven't tried<BR>> migration from real
machine<BR><BR><BR></DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>I would suggest the following:<BR><BR>-
Export the image of the VMWare VM using VMWare stuff<BR>- Convert it with
qemu-img<BR> - qemu-img convert -O raw input_disk
output_disk<BR>- d the output_disk file onto the device<BR><BR>I had to do
this on some VMs which were exhibiting the same black screen<BR>you're
getting.<BR><BR>Hope this helps.<BR>
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