From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Oct 16 02:54:02 2014
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 839AE31E
 for <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:54:02 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from alto.onthenet.com.au (alto.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.68.12])
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 460358FA
 for <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:54:01 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from dommail.onthenet.com.au (dommail.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.70.57])
 by alto.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A55124A5;
 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:53:59 +1000 (EST)
Received: from Peters-MacBook-Pro.local (c-67-161-27-37.hsd1.ca.comcast.net
 [67.161.27.37]) by dommail.onthenet.com.au (MOS 4.4.4-GA)
 with ESMTP id BZA87671 (AUTH peterg@ptree32.com.au);
 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:53:58 +1000
Message-ID: <543F3343.2050000@freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:53:55 -0700
From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8;
 rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>
Subject: Re: convert .vmdk files
References: <543E0540.3040004@nomadlogic.org> <543E07A4.5090202@freebsd.org>
 <543EA6D9.5010209@nomadlogic.org>
In-Reply-To: <543EA6D9.5010209@nomadlogic.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1
Precedence: list
List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports."
 <freebsd-virtualization.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-virtualization>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-virtualization-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-virtualization-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-virtualization-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:54:02 -0000

Hi Pete,

>>   What you have to do today is to convert the VMDK to a flat file, e.g.
>> using qemu-img.
>>
>
> ok great - installing qemu-devel on my system and running the following
> command worked great:
>
> qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw foo.vmdk foo.img
>
> i tested this by taking a current .vmdk file from my workstation i do
> development and copied it over to my new bhyve hypervisor.

  Good to hear.

> this may be a good candidate for addition to wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve -
> i'll go ahead and add this if no one objects.

  Please do :)

later,

Peter.