[Xen-users] moving a VMWare image to Xen / conversion?

["Petrescu, Florin" <fpetrescu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

 

I have a CentOS VMware image with two vmdk files/disks which are flattened (34 and 21G)

I have checked the image by opening it in VMPlayer, and it opened just fine.

I have used qemu-img convert on both of them to and save them as *.img

(they were raw anyway, but I don’t believe that it did change anything)

Here is the XYZ_VM.vmx file content:

------------------------------------ XYZ_VM.vmx ---------------------------------------

#!/usr/bin/vmware

.encoding = "UTF-8"

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "7"

pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge4.functions = "8"

pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge5.functions = "8"

pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge6.functions = "8"

pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge7.functions = "8"

vmci0.present = "TRUE"

nvram = "XYZ_VM.nvram"

deploymentPlatform = "windows"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"

unity.customColor = "|23c0c0c0"

tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"

powerType.powerOff = "hard"

powerType.powerOn = "hard"

powerType.suspend = "hard"

powerType.reset = "hard"

 

displayName = "XYZ_VM"

extendedConfigFile = "XYZ_VM.vmxf"

 

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0.sharedBus = "none"

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

memsize = "1024"

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "XYZ_VM.vmdk"

scsi0:0.deviceType = "disk"

scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:1.fileName = "XYZ_VM_1.vmdk"

scsi0:1.deviceType = "disk"

ide0:0.present = "TRUE"

ide0:0.clientDevice = "TRUE"

ide0:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

ide0:0.startConnected = "FALSE"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"

ethernet0.networkName = "VM Network"

ethernet0.addressType = "vpx"

guestOS = "other26xlinux"

uuid.location = "56 4d b0 75 2a 96 ff 08-91 ad 69 63 37 58 88 84"

uuid.bios = "56 4d b0 75 2a 96 ff 08-91 ad 69 63 37 58 88 84"

vc.uuid = "52 70 33 58 04 2e 49 01-85 68 26 9b e7 4a ea ab"

 

 

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:50:56:ba:61:cb"

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"

cleanShutdown = "TRUE"

replay.supported = "FALSE"

sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/4a6f5302-2d18ac2b-4b9b-002219502c60/XYZ_VM/XYZ_VM-3193663b.vswp"

scsi0:0.redo = ""

scsi0:1.redo = ""

vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "16777216"

pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"

pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"

pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"

pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"

pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"

scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"

ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"

vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "33"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

vmci0.id = "-1137182814"

hostCPUID.0 = "0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69"

guestCPUID.0 = "0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69"

userCPUID.0 = "0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69"

hostCPUID.1 = "0001067600040800000ce3bdbfebfbff"

guestCPUID.1 = "0001067600010800800822010febfbff"

userCPUID.1 = "0001067600040800000822010febfbff"

hostCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100800"

guestCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100800"

userCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100800"

evcCompatibilityMode = "FALSE"

 

ethernet0.startConnected = "TRUE"

 

tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

replay.filename = ""

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

I have created a config file called XYZ_XENVM which looks like this:

 

------------------------------------ XYZ_XENVM ----------------------------------------

name = "XYZ_XENVM"

# uuid = "f2030423-963f-e7d5-4bef-6bb47f1d0c99"

uuid =   "52703358-042e-4901-8568-269be74aeaab"

maxmem = 4096

memory = 4096

vcpus = 2

bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub"

>

>

>

vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncunused=0,vncdisplay=53126,keymap=en-us" ]

disk = [ 'file:/wa2/ATC5/XYZ_VM-flat.img,xvda,w',\

'file:/wa2/ATC5/XYZ_VM_1-flat.img,xvdb,w' ]

root="/dev/xvda1"

vif = [ "mac=00:50:56:ba:61:cb,bridge=xenbr0,script=vif-bridge" ]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

I am using "xm create XYZ_XENVM" but getting the following error:

 

[root@TServerA xen]# xm create XYZ_XENVM

Using config file "./XYZ_XENVM".

Error: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'xc_dom_parse_elf_kernel: ELF image has no shstrtab\n')

[root@TServerA xen]#

 

ANY help would be highly appreciated!

 

Thanks much,

 

FPT

 

 

 

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