Re: [libvirt-users] converted VMDK disk iamge and Virtio driver
On 06/18/2014 02:23 PM, Paul Raines wrote:
I have a CentOS 5 VM in vmware I wanted to move to work on KVM/libvirt.
I used qemu-img to convert it to a qcow2 image, loaded virt-manager and
created a new VM pointed at that qcow2 image. The boot paniced when it
tried to mount
the root filesystem also complaining about not being able to remount the
swap partition.
In general, converting a disk image from one hypervisor to another is
not trivial, because of things such as missing drivers and different
hardware being presented to the guest. The virt-v2v project exists to
cover a lot of cases that you are probably overlooking in your manual
attempt; I'd recommend trying that approach:
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v/
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