kvm-img utility

[MimCom]

Need to build a clean XP VM to host a legacy app and came across several pages describing the process of extracting the disk image from the XP Mode installer. I extracted the image (VirtualXPVHD) would like to use it to boot a KVM machine. Following the directions on http://blog.allanglesit.com/2011/03/linux-kvm-migrating-hyper-v-vhd-images-to-kvm/ I copied the file to the host using SCP and then tried to run kvm-img, which is apparently not included with Proxmox. Trying to install it, I get a conflict

root@pve1:~# apt-get -s install qemu-kvm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 qemu-kvm : Depends: libspice-server1 (>= 0.11.0)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 

[MimCom]

Created a Debian 7 CT, installed the qeum-kvm package, copied the binary to the host and:

root@pve1:~# ./kvm-img convert -f vpc -O raw VirtualXPVHD VirtualXP.img
W: ./kvm-img: this binary is deprecated, use qemu-img instead
root@pve1:~# ls -lh
total 2.2G
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  280 Apr 14 18:24 kvm-img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127G Apr 14 18:26 VirtualXP.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2G Apr 14 17:50 VirtualXPVHD

127 gigabytes? Yikes!

Try again:

root@pve1:~# qemu-img convert VirtualXPVHD -O qcow2 VirtualXP.qcow2
root@pve1:~# ls -lh
total 2.2G
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  280 Apr 14 18:24 kvm-img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1G Apr 14 18:35 VirtualXP.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2G Apr 14 17:50 VirtualXPVHD

Much better. See next post.

 

[dietmar]

I copied the file to the host using SCP and then tried to run kvm-img, which is apparently not included with Proxmox.

This is included, but called 'qemu-img'!

 

[MimCom]

Yes, thank you -- I did eventually find that -- in the last code paste.