From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ken Roberts Subject: Re: Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images? Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:01:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <0EACC773-5DB2-4E83-A11A-9496C9BC1B90@9ci.com> <8144f48d-6c74-43ab-8bc6-474687ceb401@theiggy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.5 \(1508\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: To: Brian Jackson Return-path: Received: from mail-yh0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:46291 "EHLO mail-yh0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754135Ab3F1BCG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:02:06 -0400 Received: by mail-yh0-f46.google.com with SMTP id i57so802013yha.5 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:02:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8144f48d-6c74-43ab-8bc6-474687ceb401@theiggy.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: -- Ken Roberts ken@9ci.com ken.roberts163 @ skype 605-222-5758 @ cell On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Brian Jackson 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 ar= e OK. >>=20 >> I have a few VM images on Parallels 8 for Mac. I want them to be on = KVM/Linux. >>=20 >> Some of the images are Linux, but the critical ones are a few types = of Windows. I don't want to trash my licenses. >>=20 >> I noticed that kvm-img has a parallels format option, and it seems t= o 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 th= e one that contains the data. >=20 >=20 > More details on "not bootable" would be nice. Do you get a blue scree= n? 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 Bo= ot failed: not a bootable disk. Thanks. Black screen from virt-manager: ---- Booting from Hard Disk=85 Boot failed: not a bootable disk Booting from ROM=85 iPXE (PCI 00:03.0) starting execution=85ok iPXE initialising devices=85ok iPXE 1.0.0+ -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware -- http://ipxe.org =46eatures: HTTP HTTPS iSCSI DNS TFTP AoE bzImage ELF MBOOT PXE PXEXT M= enu 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)=85.. 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=85 Boot failed: could not read the boot disk No bootable device. ----