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alex777
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Migration: ESX to Xen, Xen to ESX

Hello.

We would like to do a migration of several running VMs under ESX 3x to Xenserver 5.

How to convert ESX 3x VM disk (vmdk) to Xen 5x format ?

I try Virtual Disk Migration Utility Version 1.1 to convert my vmdk to XVA.

But when i try to import ova.xml i receive error.

Whether there is a converter from Xen 5 to ESX 3x (xva to vmdk)?

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Rubeck
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Do you get the same error when using version 1.2?

http://ca.downloads.xensource.com/products/v2xva/index.html

/Rubeck

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Texiwill
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Hello,

For ESX to Xen, I would ask on the Xen Forums. For Xen to ESX I am not sure what tool will work.


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As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

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alex777
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>v2xva.exe /config:"vmapp.vmx" /output:"vmappxen"

Virtual Disk Migration Utility Version 1.2: A V2V tool to convert VMware

and Microsoft Virtual Server/Virtual PC virtual machines (with Microsoft

Windows VMs installed) to the Xen Virtual Appliance (XVA) format.

Mounting virtual disk images for processing...

Check failed. Exiting...

Failed to open disk vmapp.vmdk

Failed to mount disks: 1223

Could not mount disk images completely...

Unmount virtual disk images...

Could not convert successfully!

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alex777
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Already asked. But while nobody has answered.

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Rubeck
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Could you try ?

This was published in this tread at the Citrix Forums:

Maybe that will do the trick?

/Rubeck

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polysulfide
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Worst case you should be able to remove the 512k region defining the vmdk and then treat it as a raw device.

If it was useful, give me credit

Jason White - VCP

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alex777
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17.10.2008 13:50:07 Error: Importing VM from '
192.168.1.10\ndev\ndev\vmapp\vmappxen\ova.xml' to 'xenserver1' - This file could not be imported

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humbletech99
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I am also have trouble migrating/converting anything from ESX to XenServer...

http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=1376052#1376052

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