Comments on: Migrating and Mounting VMWare Images from VMWare Server 2.x into a VMWare Server 1.x environment

By: wpeople

wpeople — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:35:50 +0000

Thanks for the info.
I’ve upgrade to vmware server 2.0 but was very unhappy with it, so gone to downgrade. As i moved a physical machine to vmware2.0 i have to downgrade it (because 1.x cannot start it)

Fixing .vmx file was easy. As the image file was so bit, hexedit was a good idea. I’ve used hexeditor (named hexeditor) on my debian lenny.

Thanks again

By: Heartshare » Blog Archive » Migrating and Mounting VMWare Images from VMWare Server 2.x into a VMWare Server 1.x environment

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:44:33 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:01:12 +0000

Hi FT,

Thanks for the comments. I haven’t heard of VMWare Converter – I’ll have to check that out, nice find. I think I found this in my travels through their site but as you mention, thought it was only for server to server conversions not local conversions. Cool!

I also was not aware 2.0 went final last week – been too busy with work – We didn’t have many issues (the web interface is definitely better, but it’s not the prettiest thing). Our main issues were with the darn thing expiring, and it was also using lots of cpu/memory at times – however, debug was “hard-enabled” so we could not turn it off – which was probably the cause of many of the above mentioned issues.

Thanks for letting me know about the 2.0 final, I am migrating a server this weekend and will probably upgrade to it again now that it won’t expire.

Matt

By: FT

FT — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:32:21 +0000

VMware Converter 3.0.3 is your friend. One of the standalone (ie. non-ESX) VM conversion options is which version of product you will be outputting and it will let you downgrade appropriately. You can convert local to local and it will fly (most people only consider Converter for box-to-box translations but I’ve used Converter to clone live on ESX rather than power off to clone and used it over the network to do fantastic things at near wire-speed).

Also, since VMware Server 2.0 was released last week, I’d love to hear about your problems with the betas. I heard a rumor that performance is slightly worse and the USB 2.0 and other new features work pretty well but I’ve stuck with 1.0.x on all the low-end deployments and am considering changing…

By: reinhard

reinhard — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:07:40 +0000

thank you for sharing this information !

used to vmware’s excellent sw quality (up to now) I was tempted to install vmware server 2 too, and was not happy with it.

Following your instructions failed for me. The vmdk could be opened but a corruption was indicated. Automatic repair was offered automatically and finished without errors. The resulting disk was not bootable and stuck at “grub loading..”. Not really a problem, since I have a backup…

BETA IS BETA