This article is intended for administrators wishing to convert existing VMs running on VMware or Hyper-V and convert them to the necessary RAW disk format to be copied into SvHCI.
This is one example and other methods will likely work also.
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This document will detail the creation of a machine to easily convert existing VM disk images to the SvHCI RAW disk format, with the logic being to create this VM on SvHCI and minimize copy times.
This details out leveraging open-source Ubuntu and qemu-img tools however the qemu-img tools are also available on run on Windows if this is preferred:
https://cloudbase.it/qemu-img-windows/
VM Create
1. Install a Ubuntu Desktop instance with internet access, such that we can install the qemu-img utility easily, alongside a web browser to push our converted VM disk images into SvHCI.
2 . Run:
sudo apt update
3. Run:
sudo apt-get install qemu-utils
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