Convert "CentOS VM" built using VMware Fusion to KVM ??

[TOM21231]

Hello,

I am hoping someone can help. 

I built up a CentOS VM using VMware Fusion on my Mac.

I need to scp this VM to CentOS server elsewhere to be started and run.

They only run KVMs on this CentOS server os they want me to convert this VM to a KVM VM first.

When I open the CentOS-64bit-VM.vmwarevm I created I see 12 vmdk files.

How would I go about converting these 12 vmdk files into a single KVM image?

Thanks

[mini2008]

Hi TOM21231,

For simplify multiple vmdk files, suggest you to revert disk type to None or Pre-allocate, and here is the step:

Settings->Hard Disk->Advanced options->uncheck 'Split into multiple files' and 'Pre-allocate disk space'.

Hope helpful.

[WoodyZ]

I do not know if you first need to make the .vmdk monolithic, and pre-allocated as suggested by mini2008, however I believe the following command syntax is applicable to convert to a format usable by KVM...

qemu-img convert -f vmdk vmware_image.vmdk -O qcow2 kvm_image.qcow2

[TOM21231]

Thanks mini and woody.  Both tips were helpful and go me where I needed to go.