About converting an image from VMWare to XenServer
In general, the conversion procedure is simple and straightforward. It is described in detail and beautifully on the Citrix website.
After several weeks of converting various virtual servers, I can make several additions:
1. You need to find the latest version of v2xva utility. Usually posted on the support forum . At the moment, the latest version is 1.3.4
2. For some reason, disks copied from ESXi refuse to convert. But they are converted without problems after conversion from pre-allocated to growing using the utility vmware-vmdiskmanager (from VMWare Workstation):
3. Sometimes the conversion does not want to happen just for no reason. The team helped me in such cases:
Using these buns, various images of windows XP, 2003, 2003 64bit have been successfully converted at the moment. The other day I will try to transfer Windows 2000.
After several weeks of converting various virtual servers, I can make several additions:
1. You need to find the latest version of v2xva utility. Usually posted on the support forum . At the moment, the latest version is 1.3.4
2. For some reason, disks copied from ESXi refuse to convert. But they are converted without problems after conversion from pre-allocated to growing using the utility vmware-vmdiskmanager (from VMWare Workstation):
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 0 destinationDisk.vmdk3. Sometimes the conversion does not want to happen just for no reason. The team helped me in such cases:
v2xva.exe /cleanUsing these buns, various images of windows XP, 2003, 2003 64bit have been successfully converted at the moment. The other day I will try to transfer Windows 2000.