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Saturday 22nd September, 2012

Kaj

19:34On VMware, that would go through the VMware video driver, so that would have to be changed

AdrianS

19:40I exported the VM as an OVF - it should be importable in any hypervisor that supports this. Is that OK for you?

19:41I believe that VB and Microsofts's stuff should be able to load it

Kaj

19:43I don't know that format. I suppose VMware can also just load it?

AdrianS

19:46sure

19:46that's a standard for VMs - OVF and OVA

Kaj

19:47Does it retain the VMware settings? The problem with loading images from other emulators is that you don't get the emulation settings, so it can break when for example it defaults to SATA instead of ATA

AdrianS

19:49I re-loaded it and it seemed fine

Kaj

19:49Let's try it. We'll see what Doc says :-)

19:51I don't see MS supporting it on Wikipedia, but it is supposed to work across VMware and VirtualBox

AdrianS

19:53there is this - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj158932.aspx

Kaj

20:06It's unclear how to convert OVF to QEmu. Does the OVF contain a VMware VMDK disk image file?

AdrianS

20:09yes

20:10and an iso along with anothe couple of files - .mf, .ovf

20:12btw, are you interested in having 50 GB on box.net? I see they're asking me to invite friends to get this amount for free

Kaj

20:12An ISO and a VMDK? That sounds wrong. Is the installation CD still in that ISO?

20:13If the CD was mounted as primary master, that would also explain why the installation partition couldn't be there

AdrianS

20:13ah, you're right - forgot to unmount

Kaj

20:13That would double the size. Not good for a download :-)

AdrianS

20:13no, the second time around, I put the cd on the second controller

Kaj

20:14The VMDK is good, though. Although it's a VMware format, QEmu can use that. That's why we always had VMware images in the past

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