Re: Kvm migration problem

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>]

Wagner, Kai wrote:
> Hey,
> im from germany and new in kvm. I'll tried the how-to's from your
 > page to migrate an windows vmware .vmdk to a kvm image.
Do you mean the lower paragraph of this one?
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_To_Migrate_From_Vmware_To_KVM

> I'll also
 > tried so start the kvm with "kvm -drive file ..." but that also
 > wont work. I'll hope you could get me an answer how to migrate
 > my vmware .vmdk to an working kvm img.
Have you used the right .vmdk? Sometimes VMware creates a small text 
file containing only a few hundred bytes of text describing the actual 
disk. If you convert (or use) this file, it will create (or use) an 
empty disk image. If "$ file foo.qcow2" reports something with "size 0 + 
0", you should look into the original .vmdk file, find the real file 
name and convert (or use) this one.

> edit: If i want to start the converted img it always told me,
 > that there is problem with the img.
Can you tell us the actual message?

HTH,
Andre.

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