How to convert a vmware linux virtual machine to xenserver virtual machine

As the title of this documents says, this document describes how to convert a vmware virtual machine to xenserver virtual machine. Although so far this procedure hasn’t fail, please use this procedure on your own risk. 1. Install quemu on the vmware Server or another Linux machine (on debian based distribution use apt-get install qemu-utils, … Continue reading How to convert a vmware linux virtual machine to xenserver virtual machine

Vmware: How do you merge multiple 2GB disk files to single vmdk file

In case of the 2GB split disk format, your virtual disk consists of multiple data files (e.g. <vmname>-sNNN.vmdk) and one header/descriptor file (<vmname>.vmdk) which describes the virtual disk. In the vmware-vdiskmanager command, it’s only the header/descriptor vmdk which you need to supply as the source virtual disk. Convert to a pre-allocated disk. The following line … Continue reading Vmware: How do you merge multiple 2GB disk files to single vmdk file