Converting virtual disk file suitable to all virtualization tools like kvm, xen, etc

linbox289 · 06-09-2011, 06:56 AM

Is there any conversion tool available to convert the file extension of virtual disk file of VMware, Xen, KVM, Virtualbox. My requirement is, I will have to migrate a ghost running in vmware to ubuntu server running with kvm. Sometimes vice versa too. So, I would like to know is there a common tool that could covert them.

Thanks in advance !!!

Reuti · 06-09-2011, 08:06 AM

VirtualBox supports already other formats without conversion. Did you try Google, and none of the solutions worked?

linbox289 · 06-09-2011, 08:27 AM

google solutions didn't help. no proper results... just 1 or 2 but it failed. nice that virtualbox supports but I really look out for kvm & xen.

mesiol · 06-09-2011, 01:43 PM

OVF template possibly works on Kvm, i use it in VMware and Xenserver.

jefro · 06-09-2011, 03:21 PM

qemu has an app to convert some formats.

acid_kewpie · 06-09-2011, 03:35 PM

qemu disks are generally just raw, they have no "format" at all, which at the simplest level seems to make soooo much sense. The file has no metdata about being a disk at all, and you can mount then directly as loopback images just as easily as make them virtual disks on a kvm vm