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Hi Holger,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the clarification. That is indeed not what I understood.
I am not sure that it is the fastest way to do the migration. I
myself had to migrate Microsoft Virtual Server VMs to Proxmox, and
here is what I did : <br>
1) remove 'Virtual additions' (the same as vmware tools), <br>
2) apply ide.reg patch in order the system recognizes IDE drives, <br>
3) Create a new VM in Proxmox with the same HD size (raw, IDE) as
the windows VM ones (I had fixed size .vhd files)<br>
4) replace these new raw files, by the .vhd ones, renaming them to
.raw.<br>
5) boot the VM.<br>
<br>
Fixed size .vhd files, the same for .vmdk, are in fact .raw files.
For ordinary NTFS files, you can mount them using :<br>
# mount -o loop,offset=32256 /path/to/image.vhd /mnt/mountpoint<br>
<br>
You can replace .vhd by .raw, it is the same, and see the files
inside inside the image file.<br>
<br>
I agree that your method could deal better with some driver issues.
I saw for example a problem with a 'processor' driver, for ACPI, but
it appears to be harmless....<br>
<br>
Alain<br>
<br>
Le 01/07/2011 16:05, Holger Ernst a écrit :
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" color="#0000ff"
face="Arial"><span class="700105513-01072011">Hi Alain, hi
Muhammad,</span></font></div>
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<div><span class="700105513-01072011"><font size="2"
color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Alain, you got something wrong
here. I appologize for having been short and unprecise.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="700105513-01072011"></span> </div>
<div><span class="700105513-01072011"><font size="2"
color="#0000ff" 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 size="2"
color="#0000ff" 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 size="2"
color="#0000ff" 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 size="2"
color="#0000ff" 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"></span> </div>
<div><span class="700105513-01072011"><font size="2"
color="#0000ff" 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>
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<div><span class="700105513-01072011"><font size="2"
color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Regards. Holger</font></span></div>
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[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com">mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com</a>] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Alain
Péan<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 1. Juli 2011 14:06<br>
<b>An:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pve-user@pve.proxmox.com">pve-user@pve.proxmox.com</a><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [PVE-User] VM windows 2008 issue.<br>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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 :
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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>
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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>
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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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