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From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEUM converting VMware image to run on XEN/VPS?
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On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 03:08:04PM -0400, Joe Lee wrote:
> Hi All, I am new to the list. I understand it may be possible for QEUM 
> to take a VMware image and
> convert the VMware file format so that it can run on a XEN/VPS (domu).
> 
> I would appreciate if anyone can confirm this for me. Also, any further 
> comments/suggestions
> to the above would be helpful!

Yes, it can be done.

Just tell qemu-img to convert it from VMware format to raw format.

See the man page for more info.

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> Joe
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