Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 15:16:36 +0000 From: Justin Holcomb <me@justinholcomb.me> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW Message-ID: <CY4PR12MB1447C3F28339A40F731BB22BA31A0@CY4PR12MB1447.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <5B018394-E485-431E-B558-91147892549E@DataIX.net> References: <20160807131117.GA23554@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>, <5B018394-E485-431E-B558-91147892549E@DataIX.net>
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Victor, One thing to keep in mind with either of those tools is that they do not kn= ow how to properly extract data from that latest VMware snapshot state. Bot= h tools will produce a raw file that contains the first snapshot state. Also if you roll back the VMware snapshot, sometimes it can render the syst= em unbootable. I have experienced this with FreeBSD ZFS installations. The = VMware snapshot is not a true snapshot of the disk. So I recommend making a= backup of the VMs before converting them over. Best of luck! Justin D Holcomb ________________________________ From: owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-virtualizatio= n@freebsd.org> on behalf of J. Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net> Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2016 7:37:23 AM To: Victor Sudakov Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Converting from VMDK to RAW I'm going to assume you have virtual box where VBoxManage is a tool that yo= u can use to convert to raw. If not qemu-img convert can also do the same a= nd is available via ports. Either way you should be able to get a raw image out of either. -- Onward!, Jason Hellenthal, Systems & Network Admin, Mobile: 0x9CA0BD58, JJH48-ARIN On Aug 7, 2016, at 08:11, Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote: Colleagues, 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)? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@freebs= d.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@freebs= d.org"
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