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Subject:    Re: Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows =?iso-8859-1?Q?images=3F?=
From:       Brian Jackson <iggy () theiggy ! com>
Date:       2013-06-27 19:33:52
Message-ID: 8144f48d-6c74-43ab-8bc6-474687ceb401 () theiggy ! com
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On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:25:54 PM CDT, Ken Roberts wrote:
> Sorry for the user query but I'm not finding expertise on the 
> Linux mailing lists I belong to.  The web site says one-off user 
> questions are OK.
> 
> I have a few VM images on Parallels 8 for Mac. I want them to 
> be on KVM/Linux.
> 
> Some of the images are Linux, but the critical ones are a few 
> types of Windows.  I don't want to trash my licenses.
> 
> I noticed that kvm-img has a parallels format option, and it 
> seems to work while the conversion is going on.  I've tried 
> kvm-img to convert to qcow2 and to raw, both cases the image 
> converts but the disk is not bootable.  The only file the 
> kvm-img doesn't immediately fail on is the one that contains the 
> data.


More details on "not bootable" would be nice. Do you get a blue screen? Seabios \
screen? You may need to prep the image before you convert it (google mergeide).



> 
> The best answer to my problem is to find out how to make the disk bootable.
> 
> The next best answer is to find out if there is a reliable 
> migration path, even if it means going to VMware first.
> 
> Also, if VMware is a necessary intermediate point, it would 
> help to know which VMware format to use for best results.
> 
> I'm not a KVM expert, I've made some VMs on LVM and installed 
> Linux on them with bridged networking, that's about the extent 
> of it.  For the record that was insanely simple.
> 
> Thanks.


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