How is the virtual networking in QEMU/KVM/libvirt? can I just click into
settings and 'add' a network interface?
On 12/1/23 01:17, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 11/30/23 23:04, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> I don't know how well QEMU/KVM/libvirt handle other disk images, like
>> from VMware.
>
> I have done it.
>
>
> My Keeper:
>
> References:
>
http://serverfault.com/questions/273982/virt-convert-ovf-to-kvm
>
http://edoceo.com/notabene/ova-to-vmdk-to-qcow2
>
http://wiki.hackzine.org/sysadmin/kvm-import-ova.html
>
>
>
> Converting OVA for use with KVM / QCOW2
>
> The OVA file is nothing more than a TAR archive, containing the .OVF
> and .VMDK files. Easy!
>
> Using Evergreen ILS for example:
>
> ~ $ file Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ova
> Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ova: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
>
> I'ts possible to use the tar command to list the contents
>
> ~ $ tar -tf Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ova
> Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ovf
> Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze-disk1.vmdk
>
> Simply extract those things...
>
> ~ $ tar -xvf Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ova
> Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ovf
> Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze-disk1.vmdk
>
> Now take a look at the created files The OVF XML file describes the
> image, it makes for some interesting reading about the expectations of
> the running environment.
>
> ~ $ file Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze*
> Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze-disk1.vmdk: VMware4 disk image
> Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ova: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
> Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.ovf: XML document text
>
> Recent versions of qemu are able to run directly from the VMDK file,
> buy why do that? Use QCOW2, it's better. Execute: qemu-img -h and the
> last line of output shows the supported formats.
>
> ~ $ qemu-img -h |tail -n1
> Supported formats: raw cow qcow vdi vmdk cloop dmg bochs vpc vvfat
> qcow2 parallels nbd blkdebug sheepdog host_cdrom host_floppy
> host_device file
>
> Now actually convert it, this may take some time.
>
> ~ $ qemu-img convert -O qcow2 Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze-disk1.vmdk
> Evergreen_trunk_Squeeze.qcow2
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