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2 Replies Last post: Aug 13, 2008 1:43 AM by Anton V Zhbankov
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Oracle VM to VMware conversion

Aug 13, 2008 12:26 AM

Click to view Anton V Zhbankov's profile Champion Anton V Zhbankov 2,714 posts since
May 26, 2008
How to convert from Oracle VM format to VMware ESX? I found manual how to convert only from VMware to Oracle VM. So I used the same tool to convert disk:
#qemu-img convert -f raw file1.img -O vmdk file1.vmdk
1) Disk became IDE, and I don't know any tool that allows editing 4GB files.
2) Ok, I connected vmdk to Workstation - and see no partition table on disk.
Reply Re: Oracle VM to VMware conversion Aug 13, 2008 12:48 AM
Click to view tom howarth's profile Guru tom howarth 7,299 posts since
Jul 25, 2005 Moderator
What OS is the OracleVM if it is Windows then treat it as a phyiscal machine and use VMware Converter to convert it into VMware format.

Tom Howarth
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Reply Re: Oracle VM to VMware conversion Aug 13, 2008 1:43 AM
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Click to view Anton V Zhbankov's profile Champion Anton V Zhbankov 2,714 posts since
May 26, 2008
Oracle VM - is Xen-based virtualization platform from Oracle. I have a couple of VM's in this format (i.e. virtual disks) and have no spare servers to install Oracle VM. Guest OS is Oracle Linux as far as I understood.

Main question is how to convert hard disk from this .img to .vmdk? Qemu-img didn't do it right way.
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