Re: [Xen-users] Xen HVM images on VMware ESX

["Diwaker Gupta" <diwaker.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Joseph L. Casale
<jcasale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I'm trying to convert some Xen HVM images to run on VMware ESX,
>  >unsuccessfully thus far. I believe the problem is that ESX by default
>  >wants the VMs to use SCSI virtual disks, but my HVM VMs are configured
>  >to use IDE virtual disks. If you have any experience with this sort of
>  >thing, please get in touch.
>
>  Right,
>  Install the drivers needed by the vmware devices into the Critical Devices 
> Database
>  and then image out and into esx. There are many options here, from manual to 
> automated.
>
>  Easiest for you might be to get a copy of the drivers and install them, 
> windows will know where to load them into the Critical Devices Database based 
> on the type (Mass Storage).

Perhaps I haven't been clear. This is not Windows specfic, I want to
do this for both Linux and Windows.

Lets say I have a disk image in QCOW format that I use with my Xen VM.
I want to retain the _same_ filesystem under VMware. So I first create
a VM in ESX with the same disk size. Then I use qemu-img to convert
the qcow image to VMDK format and overwrite the blank VMDK file
created by ESX. No go. I try the same thing but with conversion to RAW
format, and that fails as well. But this was expected.

So basically I want some way to take a qcow image and convert it for
use with ESX.

Thanks,
Diwaker
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