Virtualization

VMDK convert and raw IMG mounting on Ubuntu 14.04 Linux

November 3, 2014 in KVM / Linux / Ubuntu / Virtualization / Windows XP tagged kvm / Linux / virtualization / Windows XP by Greg

I haven’t tested mounting just the vmdk image, wasn’t sure if that would work, so I just ran the conversion first to raw img file.Â I don’t really need to regularly, but I wanted to convert an old vmdk virtual disk to a ZFS file system with NTFS on it […]

Windows 2003 Server 32bit guest on KVM host VirtIO drivers

November 1, 2014 in KVM / Networking / PC Repair / Problems / Virtualization / Windows Server tagged kvm / Linux / virtualization / Windows Server by Greg

This was a tough one to figure out, yet, simple to do once I did it right.Â I am trying to setup a lab network to do some testing with recovery and migration with older Exchange and Windows servers before we do upgrades to 2012 R2 servers.Â I am also […]