converting vmware to kvm

[rmacian]

I am trying to migrate a vmware vm (debian 4.0) to proxmox but I'm having a problem. After converting the vmdk file to qcow2 with qemu-image convert the vm does not boot. It freezes in "booting to kernel". I tryed to attach the disk as IDE, SCSI and VIRTIO without success.

I'm trying to open the image mounting it as you mentioned in another post with the

qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 disk.img

to take a look and modify the /etc/fstab

if I do a fdisk -l on the /dev/nbd0 device I can see the 3 partitions that the image have but I cannot mount anyone because the partitions are not visible as /dev/nbdpX

I believe this corresponds to a bug in launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/342563

Meanwhile, can I do anything to make the new vm boot?

 

[tom]

check the bootloader (grub, menu.lst)

 

[rmacian]

That's exactly what I want. I can check it on the online vmware server but if I need to do a modification in the kvm image I cannot do it as exposed before

 

[tom]

I just installed a standard etch (debian-40r7-i386) on vmware workstation 6.5, copied the vmdk file to Proxmox VE 1.2 and started without any problems (using scsi). I tried without conversion (means I used the vmdk disk file) and also with conversion to qcow2. no problems.

so whats different on your side? (custom disk layout settings in your *.vmx file?)