Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 09:41:32 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW Message-ID: <20160809024132.GA61447@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> In-Reply-To: <57A8B5D2.1198.3E42CA@lausts.acm.org> References: <20160807131117.GA23554@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20160808060859.GA40283@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20160808090140.GA47821@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <57A8B5D2.1198.3E42CA@lausts.acm.org>
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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 sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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