Vmware Fusion Convert Dmg To Vmdk

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This technique allows you to convert VMware based VM’s across to the Xen Hypervisor (current version 4.1.3)

Convert Dmg To Vmdk File

This step might be unnessaray for VM’s that don’t utilise sparse based virtual harddrives, but its best just to do it so everyone is at the same step. Find the vmware-vdiskmanager utility included with your VMware install.

Vmware Fusion Convert Dmg To Vmdk Drive To expand the size of a virtual disk, use a command like the following: vmware-vdiskmanager -x 40GB myDisk.vmdk This increases the maximum capacity of the virtual disk to 40GB. Since you have a vmdk file, you might have a VMWare Workstation at your disposal, even complete Virtual Machine this vmdk is attached to. Run your Virtual Machine with this particular vmdk attached, but instead of ordinary boot use PartedMagic liveCD to boot from. When liveCD is started, navigate to main menu and find the UDPCast Disk Cloning.

  1. First convert to the DMG to an ISO: dmg2img YOURFILE.dmg YOURFILE.iso Then convert that ISO to VMDK: qemu-img convert -O vmdk YOURFILE.iso YOURFILE.vmdk You can write the VMDK to a physical partition with Paragon Hard Disk Manager Premium and boot your OS.
  2. Mounting DMG image files to Vmware, Palallels or VirtualBox on Windows & Mac. A word of caution when using qemu-img to convert images for use with VMWare Fusion - Fusion doesn't like disks that aren't sized exactly to the megabyte. If you have such a image make sure you resize to the nearest megabyte first then convert it to vmdk format.
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On Mac for VMware Fusion this can be found at:

/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager

Or in some other versions

/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager

Vmware Fusion Convert Dmg To Vmdk

Change ‘cd’ into the relevant directory once found.
Consolidate the VMDK file

./vmware-vdiskmanager -r vm_to_be_converted.vmdk -t 0 temp.vmdk

Vmware Fusion Convert Dmg To Vmdk

Copy the temp VMDK across to the target Xen Hypervisor

scp temp.vmdk root@target_ip:/var/lib/libvirt/images

Once copied, use qumu-img to convert the VMDK file to a RAW format
qemu-img convert temp.vmdk -O raw /var/lib/libvirt/images/temp.img

Create a basic config file for the new VM

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cd /etc/xen/new_vm_config

name = “new_vm”
memory = “256”
disk = [ ‘file:/var/lib/libvirt/images/temp.iso,hda,w’, ]
vif = [ ‘bridge=br0’, ]
bootloader=”/usr/bin/pygrub”
vcpus=1
on_reboot = ‘restart’
on_crash = ‘restart’

Boot up the new VM

xm create new_vm

You may find network may be unavailable, due to a change in MAC addresses assigned to the VM. Use virsh edit to find the current MAC address assigned to the VM, and update the network interface within the VM accordingly. Then reboot the VM or restart network services in order to re-establish network access.