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Vdi To Qcow2
Hi all :) I want to create a KVM image from an existing iso file (for glance on OpenStack), but i didn't find how to do it. Can you help me pleaaase ?
Jan 01, 2016 If you want to run an OVA virtual appliance on KVM hypervisor, you need to convert the disk image contained in the OVA file into the format supported by KVM (e.g., QCOW2, RAW). Here is how to convert OVA appliance to QCOW2 format on Linux environment. The first step is to extract the disk image contained in the OVA file. The tar command will do it. I am currently working on VMWare virtualization; I am trying to make a converted image from qcow2 to vmdk work with ESXi Server 6.0. I have myImage.qcow2 with a disk which is thin provisioned for 300GB. I used the image converter tool qemu with the following command. Qemu-img convert -f qcow2 myImage.qcow2 -O vmdk myNewImage.vmdk.
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Hello guys, i have any problem for attach image format iso in openstack icehouse why i cant attach image format iso from dashboard openstack icehouse? But if i launch instance and attach image via cli it can, i user KVM for virtualization how to change image ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso to format qcow2 (qemu copy-on-write)? Thanks before. Jun 13, 2016 With that being said, if you convert to qcow2 the file size of your image should automatically shrink to the real used space. So if you’re having a 100GB raw image and the real used disk space is about 5GB, the image (after the conversion to qcow2) should be 5GB instead of 100GB in total. Hope this helped.
Create a VM with a size (6G below) (it will be small until the install is done into it)
Then install the iso into your vm
And run it in 990M of memory:
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This isn’t correct. This is for booting a KVM instance using an image that was created and a foreign ISO.
Maybe something similar to this in order to 'convert' an ISO to an qcow2 image. I might be confused about the OP. I was looking to convert an ISO to qcow2.
Your instructions seem right to boot an ISO for an blank qcow2 disk image for a hard drive for 6G.
(but it has to flagged as a bootable ISO in order to boot with
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