Comments on: From Vmware to QEMU

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:19:20 +0000

To have two seperate disks:
qemu -hda osdisk-s001.vmkd -hdb datadisk-s001.vmdk -boot c

NOTE: These are not to be mistaken with seperate partitions

By: abhi

abhi — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:42:10 +0000

hello,
my vmware image have 2 separate disks, [1 for os [osdisk-s001.vmkd ... osdisk-s011.vmdk] and the other for userdata/program [datadisk-s001.vmdk ... datadisk-s11.vmdk].

how would I convert so that when qemu boot the converted image file it can have data from both disks?

thanks

By: Vern

Vern — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:03:19 +0000

This posting is a bit old, but for future reference…

The command:
cat *.raw >> guestos.img
requires that the image files are:
1. All part of a single virtual hard drive (maybe even a single partition?)
2. All numbered with the same number of digits, since a “10″ appears before “9″.

By: D’ Minas » Converter imagem do VMWARE para KVM

D’ Minas » Converter imagem do VMWARE para KVM — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:08:52 +0000

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By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:30:39 +0000

I was getting a message that said that it could not open “-O” on my FreeBSD box, so I make a slight adjustment to get it to run. Otherwise, thanks for the excellent trick.

for i in `ls *[0-9].vmdk`; do qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw $1 {i/vmdk/raw}; done