From: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>
To: Ken Roberts <ken@9ci.com>
Cc: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:33:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8144f48d-6c74-43ab-8bc6-474687ceb401@theiggy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0EACC773-5DB2-4E83-A11A-9496C9BC1B90@9ci.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-27 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-27 1:25 Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images? Ken Roberts
2013-06-27 19:33 ` Brian Jackson [this message]
2013-06-28 1:01 ` Ken Roberts
2013-06-28 8:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-29 3:36 ` Ken Roberts
2013-07-01 1:52 ` Fam Zheng
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