Category Archives: Virtualization

How to Convert a KVM to a VDI

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KVM is a bare metal virtualization software use to run several operating system on the same hardware. VDI is the file type used in VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems’ desktop virtualization product. A desktop virtualization product allows you to run an operating system in a window independent from your main operating system. VirtualBox and KVM use different file formats to store the virtual machine and transferring a KVM virtual machine to VirtualBox requires an indirect approach.

Via How to Convert a KVM to a VDI | eHow.com.

How To Mount a Linux LVM Partition in a XenServer Host

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This article describes how to mount a Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) partition located inside a virtual disk (VDI) in a XenServer Host.

via CTX117791 – How To Mount a Linux LVM Partition in a XenServer Host – Citrix Knowledge Center.

Finally!!!!

I have never been a fan of logical volume management which seems to be a Red Hat thing.  It completely complicates matters when mounting drives.  XenServer, which is based off centos (I think) is littered with LVMs as the result of performing the above procedure will attest.  I hope Citrix had a good reason for doing this.

Welcome to xen.org, home of the Xen® hypervisor

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The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems

via Welcome to xen.org, home of the Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization..

Virtual Machine Manager

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The “Virtual Machine Manager” application (virt-manager for short package name) is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines. It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance & resource utilization statistics. The detailed view graphs performance & utilization over time. Wizards enable the creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain’s resource allocation & virtual hardware. An embedded VNC client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain

Via Virtual Machine Manager.

Converting VMWare Workstation images to VMWare ESXi 3.5

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Use SCP to copy your Workstation files over to the ESX server. The path is /vmfs/volumes/YourDataStore. Next, ssh into your ESX server and run the following command:

vmkfstools -i sourcefile.vmdk /vmfs/vmfsname/destinationfile.vmdk

Once that process is complete you can point ESX at that file and start it up. Make sure you delete the source files so you aren’t wasting space on the ESX server.

via Righteous Hack » Converting VMWare Workstation images to VMWare ESXi 3.5.

This worked.  The VMware converter failed on two VMs made with Workstation but copying them over and using this command does the trick.  Problem solved! (I hope)

Converter completely failed on Windows 7 and apparently there’s a hack where the type of OS needs to be changed in Workstation settings for the VM.   My PBX in a flash vm wouldn’t boot from its hd after conversion because the converter lost its partition.  I confirmed this by booting vm into knoppix and checking the partitions.  IMHO, converter creates more work than just copying the vm manually.  I fixed my piaf vm by manually copying the .vmdk file over and using the command above.  Will do more experiments later.