[Openstack-operators] Import Windows 2008 Vmware VMDK Image to KVM Openstack.

Steve Gordon sgordon at redhat.com
Thu Jan 22 13:42:59 UTC 2015


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pedro Sousa" <pgsousa at gmail.com>
> To: "OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org" <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> does anybody have a working procedure/howto to convert Windows based VMDK
> images to KVM?
> 
> I tried to convert using qemu-img convert command but I always get a blue
> screen when I launch the instance.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pedro Sousa

You might want to look into virt-v2v ( http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v/ ). It performs some additional actions to converting the disk image such as injecting virtio drivers.

-Steve



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