Re: [Xen-users] Converting a VMDK on ESX to raw

["mitch@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <mitch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wei can you provide a little more detail?
I have a client machine running Windows 2000 on vmware 2 I desparately want to 
convert to XenServer 6.2 but so far my attempts have all failed.
Single machine - but I'm not quite sure what I'd be dd'ing to what?

Cheers - have a great weekend!

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On Behalf Of Wei Liu
Sent: January 31, 2014 2:13 PM
To: Manoj Subramaniam (manojsub)
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Converting a VMDK on ESX to raw

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 07:25:37PM +0000, Manoj Subramaniam (manojsub) wrote:
> Iâm trying to convert a vmdk windows image to a raw image compatible with 
> xen. I have tried qemu-img and vmkfstools so far, but have had no luck I.e, 
> DomU says it canât find the boot disk and fails. I am going to  try out 
> Redhatâs virt-v2v. Is there a tool you guys use?
> 

A dumb method I can think of is you create a Linux guest on ESX, mount attach 
that disk and use dd. It should be doable if you only want to convert one or 
two disks.

Wei.

> - Manoj

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