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

[Sharath Babu <sharathx@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have never seen vmware-mount.pl or vmware-loop working properly,
Everytime you try to mount, you would get "Unable to invoke
vmware-loop", this seems to support older version(version 2) of vmdk
files and not the newer ones. 
if you try to use vmware-loop(vmdk to NBD mapper) directly, it might give you "Unable to open the vmdk file" or something....
But give it a try, 

I believe qemu-img works better in this case and much more easier to use.
#qemu-img convert -f vmdk /path/filename.vmdk -O raw /path/filename.raw

# fdisk -l /path/filename.raw
will give you the list of partitions...... showing that the conversion was good.

Make sure to peel off the required partition from this image to a new
image, because you cannot mount a disk, you can only mount a partition.
supports vmware 3 and 4 images
check:
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC18

--
Sharath

On 10/1/05, Ernst Bachmann <e.bachmann@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Friday 30 September 2005 18:57, Aaron // LT wrote:
> 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

A bit offtopic, but I hope you don't create your /tmp dir that way on a
multiuser system, it is missing the sticky / "tempdir" flag.

chmod 1777 /mnt/tmp

would be better.

For the original question:

There's a tool to loopback-mount the vmware images into the host os, have a
look at:
http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/loopback_linux.html#what

/Ernst

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