Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 15:16:36 +0000 From: Justin Holcomb <me@justinholcomb.me> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW Message-ID: <CY4PR12MB1447C3F28339A40F731BB22BA31A0@CY4PR12MB1447.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <5B018394-E485-431E-B558-91147892549E@DataIX.net> References: <20160807131117.GA23554@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>, <5B018394-E485-431E-B558-91147892549E@DataIX.net>
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Victor, One thing to keep in mind with either of those tools is that they do not know how to properly extract data from that latest VMware snapshot state. Both tools will produce a raw file that contains the first snapshot state. Also if you roll back the VMware snapshot, sometimes it can render the system unbootable. I have experienced this with FreeBSD ZFS installations. The VMware snapshot is not a true snapshot of the disk. So I recommend making a backup of the VMs before converting them over. Best of luck! Justin D Holcomb ________________________________ From: owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> on behalf of J. Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net> Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2016 7:37:23 AM To: Victor Sudakov Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW I'm going to assume you have virtual box where VBoxManage is a tool that you can use to convert to raw. If not qemu-img convert can also do the same and is available via ports. Either way you should be able to get a raw image out of either. -- Onward!, Jason Hellenthal, Systems & Network Admin, Mobile: 0x9CA0BD58, JJH48-ARIN On Aug 7, 2016, at 08:11, Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote: Colleagues, I would like to convert some FreeBSD VMs from VMware to bhyve. Which is the best way to convert virtual disks from the VMDK to the RAW format (which I think is the format bhyve uses)? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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