Howto: Linux and Windows virtualization with KVM and Qemu (Linux Today)
Submitted by Linux Resource News on January 23, 2010 – 4:16 amOne Comment
TuxRadar: “We’re going to deliberately sidestep the jargon and the hype to take a practical look at the virtualisation technologies in Ubuntu, in particular KVM and Qemu and the related userspace tools that create and manage virtual machines. Although the discussion centres on Ubuntu, the technology is applicable to all Linux distros.”
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As a supplement, there are also tools to convert virtual machine images from other platforms as well. With Oracle’s purchase of Virtual Iron, which is a Xen-based virtualization solution using .vhd images this article is very timely. Oracle decided after purchasing Virtual Iron to discontinue the product.
You can convert from .vmdk or .vhd to the raw image type using:
kvm-img convert -O raw server-ide.vmdk server-ide.raw and then run KVM using the raw disk format. You can do the same for .vhd.