Conversion Tools
virt-convert - modular conversion tool to convert between virtual
machine formats(currently supports conversion between vmware and virt-image
formts)
The conversion does not touch the image files other than conversion it is
assumed the image has the required kernel modules configured in order to boot
in the new virtualization environment.
To download the prebuilt or source version of the updated
python-virtinst package it is available at: http://thincrust.net/download
The "Virtual Machine Manager" code is managed using the Mercurial source
control tool. The mainline development repository for cloning is at the URL:
Mercurial tools can be downloaded from:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ and are also available in Fedora 9.
Currently supported conversion types:
- virt-image xml format to vmware vmx format:
- vmware vmx format to virt-image xml format
Examples
Convert a guest from "image.xml" into VMware vmx format
Convert a guest from image.vmx into virt-image xml format
Convert a guest from image.vmx into virt-image xml format as a paravirt guest