From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx04.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.8]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p07DuYWi028720 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 08:56:34 -0500 Received: from ps536.phatservers.com (ps536.phatservers.com [216.17.105.202]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p07DuPn8019225 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 08:56:25 -0500 Received: from r74-192-2-154.bcstcmta01.clsttx.tl.dh.suddenlink.net ([74.192.2.154] helo=raydesk1.bettercgi.com) by ps536.phatservers.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1PbCno-0005ma-6A for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:56:24 -0800 Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:56:23 -0600 From: Ray Morris In-Reply-To: (from mightydreams@gmail.com on Fri Jan 7 04:12:09 2011) Message-Id: <1294408583.2185.72@raydesk1.bettercgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm to vmdk conversion Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; delsp="Yes"; format="Flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development > if this is not the right list for question the give me any link. These are qemu questions, so indeed this is not the right list. Your logical volumes happen to be the files you want to use qemu-img on, but they are just files in this context, there's no logical volume management (LVM) questions. > I came across many tutorials on internet which talk of converting a > vmdk to qcow2 image using qemu-img. If you read at least one of those tutorials, you probably know more about it than anyone on this list, so I'm waiting to learn from you after confirm as below. > qemu-img convert -c -f raw -O vmdk /dev/abcd/lvm4 /backup/lvm4.img > > Will the above affect the lvm4. > I do not want the VM running on original server to at all loose its > any of the content Most of the time, commands don't affect their input, so I'd guess that the input file would be unchanged. Try it and see. Maybe make an extra copy of the source image, such as with dd, and test it. I'm curious to know what you learn during this process because I also happen to have a bunch of virtual machine on LVs, which I may convert to another type of image file at some point. -- Ray Morris support@bettercgi.com Strongbox - The next generation in site security: http://www.bettercgi.com/strongbox/ Throttlebox - Intelligent Bandwidth Control http://www.bettercgi.com/throttlebox/ Strongbox / Throttlebox affiliate program: http://www.bettercgi.com/affiliates/user/register.php On 01/07/2011 04:12:09 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote: > Hi, > if this is not the right list for question the give me any link. > I am not clear as the term I want to know. > I have a virtualization setup(kvm) where few guest Operating Systems > are running in separate LVM partitions. > > Here is output of lvscan > > ACTIVE '/dev/abcd/lvm1' [100.00 GiB] inherit > ACTIVE '/dev/abcd/lvm2' [150.00 GiB] inherit > ACTIVE '/dev/abcd/lvm3' [50.00 GiB] inherit > ACTIVE '/dev/abcd/lvm4' [100.00 GiB] inherit > > > I want all these OSeS running inside LVMs to be into a vmdk image. > I came across many tutorials on internet which talk of converting a > vmdk to qcow2 image using qemu-img. > > I tried vmware-converter-client also on a test machine which > actually failed. > I want to convert all the above LVMs to vmdk image which I can give to > some people who will do experiments on the things installed in the VMs > as above on a Vmware environment or Xen even. > So what way should I go. > I came across a command > qemu-img convert -c -f raw -O vmdk /dev/abcd/lvm4 /backup/lvm4.img > > Will the above affect the lvm4. > I do not want the VM running on original server to at all loose its > any of the content but also have a vmdk file for each of the Guest OS > which is running on kvm as mentioned above. > What should I google exactly I am not clear with this part. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > >