<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">i am using VMware 2.0.1 not ESX or ESXI. so there is no backup option in this version either. :(</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sirtcp@gmail.com">sirtcp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">i tried both commands<div class="im"><div><br></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace;font-size:14px">qemu-img convert vnware-raw.vmdk -O qcow2 proxmox.qcow2</span></div>
</div><div><font face="'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px">qemu-img convert vnware-raw.vmdk -O raw proxmox.raw</span></font></div>
<div><font face="'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div>
<div><font face="'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px">output from the above command didnt help.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div>
<div><font face="'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px">i already created VM with a raw file and tried in qcow2 VM also. hard disk shifting didn't work. i have </span></font><font face="sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;line-height:19px">already installed mergeide.reg. although this is not my first time i can easily move VMs with clonezillah . i have migrated many Windows 2003 and XP VMs to proxmox with just clonzilla ISO. i have followed the same procedure as showed for physical machine with clonezilla in documentation and it worked for me for XP and 2003 but this is the first time with windows 2008 that making me irritate by showing this black screen.</span></font></div>
<div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;line-height:19px"><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;line-height:19px"><font face="sans-serif">Thank you,</font></span></div>
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<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><a href="http://www.proxmox.com/downloads/proxmox-ve/misc/59-mergeide" title="http://www.proxmox.com/downloads/proxmox-ve/misc/59-mergeide" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-right:13px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank"></a></span>On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Alain Péan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alain.pean@lpp.polytechnique.fr" target="_blank">alain.pean@lpp.polytechnique.fr</a>></span> wrote:</div>
<div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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Hi Muhammad,<br>
<br>
Why did you convert your image to qcow2 ? I always use raw image
file. I don't know if the problem lies here. Obviously, If you
created first a VM with qcow2 file format, you must replace it also
by a qcow2 file, but I would create a VM with raw files...<br>
<br>
If the disk is IDE (and it must), you have to apply first the ide
reg patch (mergeide), because your HD was certainly SCSI within
vmware.... See :<br>
<a href="http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE" target="_blank">http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE</a><br>
(<span>Windows systems specific P2V issues</span>)<br>
<br>
Alain<br>
<br>
Le 04/07/2011 11:48, Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit :
<div><div></div><div><blockquote type="cite">ok I followed your suggession, still same black
screen. no luck. i followed the below steps.
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<div>1) <span style="font-family:'Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace;font-size:14px">vmware-vdiskmanager -r vmware-hd.vmdk -t 0
vmware-raw.vmdk</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace;font-size:14px">2) copied "vmware-raw.vmdk" to proxmox base
in temp folder</span></div>
<div><font face="'Liberation Mono',
'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"><span style="font-size:14px">3)</span></font><span style="font-family:'Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace;font-size:14px">qemu-img convert vnware-raw.vmdk -O qcow2 proxmox.qcow2</span></div>
<div><font face="'Liberation Mono',
'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"><span style="font-size:14px">4) finally
i attached the proxmox.qcow2 to a VM and hit start but with
same black screen</span></font></div>
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'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
</span></font></div>
<div><font face="'Liberation Mono',
'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
</span></font></div>
<div><font face="'Liberation Mono',
'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"><span style="font-size:14px">Thank you,</span></font></div>
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'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace"><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Alain
Péan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alain.pean@lpp.polytechnique.fr" target="_blank">alain.pean@lpp.polytechnique.fr</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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 href="http://communities.vmware.com/thread/155051" target="_blank">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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<div>
<blockquote 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>
<div><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" target="_blank">lcaron@unix-scripts.info</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div>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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