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From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To: Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW
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Thomas Laus wrote:

[dd]

> > > 
> > > Probably I don't need any converters at all because the *-flat.vmdk is
> > > already a RAW image.
> > 
> > I've even been able to reduce the on-disk size of the image from 10G
> > to 3,4G with "dd conv=sparse" without any ill effects.
> >
> You have done a lot more with VMWare than I have.  I just experimented with a 
> few tutorials and then went on to using Xen.  I had known of the vmdktool 
> utilities and used them to move VM's between home and office, but never was a 
> serious VMWare customer (too expensive!).

Oh, ESXi is free and very nice. My real incentive to switch from
VMware to bhyve is that VMware requres a Microsoft Windows workstation
for management.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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