Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:54:49 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: convert .vmdk files Message-ID: <543EA6D9.5010209@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <543E07A4.5090202@freebsd.org> References: <543E0540.3040004@nomadlogic.org> <543E07A4.5090202@freebsd.org>
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On 10/14/14 22:35, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Pete, >> 10. Add filters for popular VM file formats (VMDK, VHD, QCOW2) >> >> i have some .vmdk files for systems currently running VirtualBox i would >> like to port to bhyve. i also have a box running bhyve (10.1-rc2) that >> i can test patches and workflows as well. what is the work required for >> this entail? > > 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. this may be a good candidate for addition to wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve - i'll go ahead and add this if no one objects. > Ideally bhyve would be able to read/write VM file formats directly, > perhaps with some sort of filter on top of the existing file backend > code. There's plenty of GPL code around for this, but bhyve requires > code with a BSD license. > thanks for the info on that - i unfortunately that is beyond my bandwidth/techinical capabilities at this point. i'd love to help test code out to do this once that day comes. Cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org twitter => @nomadlogicLA
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