[one-users] [OT] xen to kvm images

[Daniel Molina]

Hi,

You can read some of these posts and maybe find some helpful info from
other people in the same situation

http://ewen.mcneill.gen.nz/blog/entry/2010-11-25-xen-to-kvm/
http://panoskrt.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/migrating-xen-virtual-machine-to-kvm/
http://cjfearnley.sys-con.com/node/1620828/mobile
http://warutblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-migrate-xen-guest-virtual.html

Hope this helps.

On 6 July 2011 16:41, samuel <samu60 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm struggling with a few issues converting xen to kvm images. I know this
> might not be the right mailing list to ask but I'm sure there's someone that
> can point me to the right mailing list or documentation. So, first of all,
> apologies fot the Off-Topic post.
>
> In my lab environment I have KVM-only nodes and I'm interested in porting
> Xen images. I've created Xen images either with dd inside the virtual Xen
> machine or just taking the xen disk file. In both cases, doing and fdisk of
> the resulting image I got:
>
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
> w(rite)
> You must set cylinders.
> You can do this from the extra functions menu.
>
> I've tried 2 methods:
> 1)just press w(rite) in fdisk which would insert a valid flag number
> 2) using sfidk to add a manual flag number (echo '1' | sfdisk image.img)
>
> No matter what I use, the resulting file disk seems to not work and the
> partition table seems broken. I've tried to continue installing grub and a
> working kernel in the resulting image.img so they can be boot from KVM but I
> always got No Boot Device available.
>
> Can anyone tell what shall be done with a Xen disc image to be ported to a
> KVM environment?
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> Samuel Osorio.
>
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