* Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images? @ 2013-06-27 1:25 Ken Roberts 2013-06-27 19:33 ` Brian Jackson 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Ken Roberts @ 2013-06-27 1:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kvm Sorry for the user query but I'm not finding expertise on the Linux mailing lists I belong to. The web site says one-off user questions are OK. I have a few VM images on Parallels 8 for Mac. I want them to be on KVM/Linux. Some of the images are Linux, but the critical ones are a few types of Windows. I don't want to trash my licenses. I noticed that kvm-img has a parallels format option, and it seems to work while the conversion is going on. I've tried kvm-img to convert to qcow2 and to raw, both cases the image converts but the disk is not bootable. The only file the kvm-img doesn't immediately fail on is the one that contains the data. The best answer to my problem is to find out how to make the disk bootable. The next best answer is to find out if there is a reliable migration path, even if it means going to VMware first. Also, if VMware is a necessary intermediate point, it would help to know which VMware format to use for best results. I'm not a KVM expert, I've made some VMs on LVM and installed Linux on them with bridged networking, that's about the extent of it. For the record that was insanely simple. Thanks. -- Ken Roberts ken@9ci.com ken.roberts163 @ skype 605-222-5758 @ cell ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images? 2013-06-27 1:25 Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images? Ken Roberts @ 2013-06-27 19:33 ` Brian Jackson 2013-06-28 1:01 ` Ken Roberts 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Brian Jackson @ 2013-06-27 19:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ken Roberts; +Cc: kvm On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:25:54 PM CDT, Ken Roberts wrote: > Sorry for the user query but I'm not finding expertise on the > Linux mailing lists I belong to. The web site says one-off user > questions are OK. > > I have a few VM images on Parallels 8 for Mac. I want them to > be on KVM/Linux. > > Some of the images are Linux, but the critical ones are a few > types of Windows. I don't want to trash my licenses. > > I noticed that kvm-img has a parallels format option, and it > seems to work while the conversion is going on. I've tried > kvm-img to convert to qcow2 and to raw, both cases the image > converts but the disk is not bootable. The only file the > kvm-img doesn't immediately fail on is the one that contains the > data. More details on "not bootable" would be nice. Do you get a blue screen? Seabios screen? You may need to prep the image before you convert it (google mergeide). > > The best answer to my problem is to find out how to make the disk bootable. > > The next best answer is to find out if there is a reliable > migration path, even if it means going to VMware first. > > Also, if VMware is a necessary intermediate point, it would > help to know which VMware format to use for best results. > > I'm not a KVM expert, I've made some VMs on LVM and installed > Linux on them with bridged networking, that's about the extent > of it. For the record that was insanely simple. > > Thanks. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images? 2013-06-27 19:33 ` Brian Jackson @ 2013-06-28 1:01 ` Ken Roberts 2013-06-28 8:39 ` Paolo Bonzini 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Ken Roberts @ 2013-06-28 1:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Brian Jackson; +Cc: kvm -- Ken Roberts ken@9ci.com ken.roberts163 @ skype 605-222-5758 @ cell On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:25:54 PM CDT, Ken Roberts wrote: >> Sorry for the user query but I'm not finding expertise on the Linux mailing lists I belong to. The web site says one-off user questions are OK. >> >> I have a few VM images on Parallels 8 for Mac. I want them to be on KVM/Linux. >> >> Some of the images are Linux, but the critical ones are a few types of Windows. I don't want to trash my licenses. >> >> I noticed that kvm-img has a parallels format option, and it seems to work while the conversion is going on. I've tried kvm-img to convert to qcow2 and to raw, both cases the image converts but the disk is not bootable. The only file the kvm-img doesn't immediately fail on is the one that contains the data. > > > More details on "not bootable" would be nice. Do you get a blue screen? Seabios screen? You may need to prep the image before you convert it (google mergeide). Not sure if you support screenshots on the list, so I'm typing it below the post. The only configured device is the hard disk, it is INSTANTLY showing Boot failed: not a bootable disk. Thanks. Black screen from virt-manager: ---- Booting from Hard Disk… Boot failed: not a bootable disk Booting from ROM… iPXE (PCI 00:03.0) starting execution…ok iPXE initialising devices…ok iPXE 1.0.0+ -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware -- http://ipxe.org Features: HTTP HTTPS iSCSI DNS TFTP AoE bzImage ELF MBOOT PXE PXEXT Menu net0: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx using rtl8139 on PCI00:03.0 (open) [Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0] DHCP (net0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx)….. ok net0: 192.168.1.140/255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1 Next server: 192.168.1.1 Nothing to boot: No such file or directory (http://ipxe.org/2d03e13b) No more network devices Booting from Floppy… Boot failed: could not read the boot disk No bootable device. ---- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images? 2013-06-28 1:01 ` Ken Roberts @ 2013-06-28 8:39 ` Paolo Bonzini 2013-06-29 3:36 ` Ken Roberts 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Paolo Bonzini @ 2013-06-28 8:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ken Roberts; +Cc: Brian Jackson, kvm Il 28/06/2013 03:01, Ken Roberts ha scritto: >> > More details on "not bootable" would be nice. Do you get a blue screen? Seabios screen? You may need to prep the image before you convert it (google mergeide). > > Not sure if you support screenshots on the list, so I'm typing it below the post. > > The only configured device is the hard disk, it is INSTANTLY showing Boot failed: not a bootable disk. If you attach one of your Windows images to one of the Linux VMs and run the Linux VM on Parallels, what does "file -s" say if you pass it the Windows disk? And what does "file" say (on the host) about the same Windows image after conversion to raw? Also, can you do dd if=/path/to/windows-image.raw bs=512 count=1 | od -tx1 (of course you have to replace /path/to/windows-image.raw) and include the output? Paolo ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images? 2013-06-28 8:39 ` Paolo Bonzini @ 2013-06-29 3:36 ` Ken Roberts 2013-07-01 1:52 ` Fam Zheng 0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Ken Roberts @ 2013-06-29 3:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Paolo Bonzini; +Cc: Brian Jackson, kvm On Jun 28, 2013, at 3:39 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote: > Il 28/06/2013 03:01, Ken Roberts ha scritto: >>>> More details on "not bootable" would be nice. Do you get a blue screen? Seabios screen? You may need to prep the image before you convert it (google mergeide). >> >> Not sure if you support screenshots on the list, so I'm typing it below the post. >> >> The only configured device is the hard disk, it is INSTANTLY showing Boot failed: not a bootable disk. > > If you attach one of your Windows images to one of the Linux VMs and run > the Linux VM on Parallels, what does "file -s" say if you pass it the > Windows disk? # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 68.7 GB, 68719730688 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8354 cylinders, total 134218224 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00010001 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 63 134190944 67095441 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT # file -s /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial 0x10001; partition 1: ID=0x7, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 134190882 sectors, code offset 0xc0 # file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 63, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80) > And what does "file" say (on the host) about the same Windows image > after conversion to raw? $file -s popeye-c-raw.img popeye-c-raw.img: data > Also, can you do > > dd if=/path/to/windows-image.raw bs=512 count=1 | od -tx1 > > (of course you have to replace /path/to/windows-image.raw) and include > the output? $dd if=popeye-c-raw.img bs=512 count=1 | od -tx1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000139388 s, 3.7 MB/s 0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 * 0001000 > Paolo Thanks for the help. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images? 2013-06-29 3:36 ` Ken Roberts @ 2013-07-01 1:52 ` Fam Zheng 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Fam Zheng @ 2013-07-01 1:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ken Roberts; +Cc: Paolo Bonzini, Brian Jackson, kvm On Fri, 06/28 22:36, Ken Roberts wrote: > > > On Jun 28, 2013, at 3:39 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Il 28/06/2013 03:01, Ken Roberts ha scritto: > >>>> More details on "not bootable" would be nice. Do you get a blue screen? Seabios screen? You may need to prep the image before you convert it (google mergeide). > >> > >> Not sure if you support screenshots on the list, so I'm typing it below the post. > >> > >> The only configured device is the hard disk, it is INSTANTLY showing Boot failed: not a bootable disk. > > > > If you attach one of your Windows images to one of the Linux VMs and run > > the Linux VM on Parallels, what does "file -s" say if you pass it the > > Windows disk? > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > Disk /dev/sdb: 68.7 GB, 68719730688 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8354 cylinders, total 134218224 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x00010001 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 * 63 134190944 67095441 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > > > # file -s /dev/sdb > /dev/sdb: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial 0x10001; partition 1: ID=0x7, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 134190882 sectors, code offset 0xc0 > > # file -s /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdb1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 63, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80) > > > > And what does "file" say (on the host) about the same Windows image > > after conversion to raw? > > $file -s popeye-c-raw.img > popeye-c-raw.img: data > > > > Also, can you do > > > > dd if=/path/to/windows-image.raw bs=512 count=1 | od -tx1 > > > > (of course you have to replace /path/to/windows-image.raw) and include > > the output? > > $dd if=popeye-c-raw.img bs=512 count=1 | od -tx1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000139388 s, 3.7 MB/s > 0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > * > 0001000 > Definitely not a correct conversion, can you post your converting command? I think is should be one like: qemu-img convert -f parallels -O qcow2 original.parallels target.qcow2 -- Fam ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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