Re: [Xen-users] porting vmware's vmdk to domU

[Aaron // LT <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lately I have been creating xen domU images using vmware.  But what i 
usually do is do a basic install in vmware, then do something like:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/osname bs=1024k count=size_megabytes
mkfs.ext3 /osname
mount -o loop /osnname /mnt
cp -ax /mnt/{root,dev,var,etc,usr,bin,sbin,lib} /mnt
mkdir /mnt/{proc,sys,home,tmp}
chmod 777 /mnt/tmp
umount /mnt
gzip osname

then i would FTP the image up to one of our xen servers and start 
testing, getting it running.  The copying steps might be slightly 
different depending on what you want to copy across.
This isn't really the easiest way, but has been working great so far. 

Regards,
Aaron

Sven Uebelacker wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is there any experience of converting vmware's vmdk file to a domU image? 
> Maybe via extracting vmdk (how?) -> build tar -> untar in domU?
> That would be very nice despite replacing the original kernel with a 
> self-built one and worthy to write a script... :)
> Cheers,
> Sven.
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