Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 13:08:59 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW Message-ID: <20160808060859.GA40283@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> In-Reply-To: <20160807140825.GA35627@mail.laus.org> References: <20160807131117.GA23554@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20160807140825.GA35627@mail.laus.org>
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Thomas Laus wrote: > > > > I would like to convert some FreeBSD VMs from VMware to bhyve. Which > > is the best way to convert virtual disks from the VMDK to the RAW > > format (which I think is the format bhyve uses)? > > > I have used /devel/vmdktool to do the job in the past. It has always > worked for me. Now it's in sysutils/vmdktool. However, it's not all that simple. I have downloaded the VM disk from VMware ESXi and the image consists of two files: myhost-flat.vmdk and myhost.vmdk. The latter is a small text file containing meta-information about the disk. The former looks like a RAW disk, at least I can mdconfig it and mount the partitions. $ file "myhost-flat.vmdk" myhost-flat.vmdk: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0xee, start-CHS (0x0,0,2), end-CHS (0x3ff,255,63), startsector 1, 20971519 sectors the problem is that sysutils/vmdktool does not recognize either of them: $ vmdktool -i myhost.vmdk myhost.vmdk: File too small (must be at least 1024 bytes) $ vmdktool -i myhost-flat.vmdk myhost-flat.vmdk: Bad VMDK magic (got 8ec031fc, want 564d444b) $ Probably I don't need any converters at all because the *-flat.vmdk is already a RAW image. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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