Migration VMWARE > HARVESTER

Harvester
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Hello.
Has anyone successfully migrated a VMWARE VM (VMDK) to Harvester?
I tried to convert the VMDK to QCOW2 using QEMU, but in the harvester it doesn’t start, it’s just in the SHELL INTERATIVE.

Any idea?

2

Does it work on the command line?

qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 image.vmdk image.qcow2

Reference: Converting between image formats — Virtual Machine Image Guide documentation

3

Yes. The conversion went perfectly, I even mounted the image by qemu itself and it worked.
The problem is inside the combine.
I upload the image and create the VM using the image, but when it starts it doesn’t boot.

4

I have not seen this, but admittedly I have not converted from vmware in a long time. I would file a formal [BUG] here.

5

Hi,
Please try convert from inside the system to qcow2 instead of converting vmdk to harvester, already test this and it’s working.

Boot system using live linux distro ( i use kubuntu)

provide local ip address (networking)

# apt install qemu-utils screen

Create image from existing disk.
Check the correct disk / image source ( in my case it’s /dev/sda )
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors
Disk model: Virtual disk
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x23e4b144

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 87889919 87887872 41.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 87891966 104855551 16963586 8.1G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 87891968 104855551 16963584 8.1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/loop0: 3.06 GiB, 3289141248 bytes, 6424104 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Mount SMB server for temporary image transit
# mkdir /mnt/transit
# mount.cifs -w //$your_smb_server/shares/ /mnt/transit -o user=$USERNAME,pass=$PASSWORD,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,nobrl
# screen
# qemu-img convert -p -O qcow2 /dev/sda /mnt/transit/$image_name.qcow2

After the conversion finished, we can upload $image_name.qcow2 to Harvester image, if the size is larger than 5GB use URL (provide web server) instead of File.

Hope this help