[conspire] (forw) Re: (forw) Re: VirtualBox

[Tony Godshall]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Paul Zander <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:
>> KVM's not hard to use.  You use -hda to give is a filename for a hard
>
>> drive and -cdrom to give it an iso file and -boot d to tell it to boot
>> from the iso for your install, and omit those two arguments
>> thereafter.
>
>
> Tony,
>
> You missed all the past discussion that there is no .iso.
>
> Just a .vmdk file created from the installed windows.
> There is good reason to expect that Virtual box will work with vmdk files.
> Possibly KVM will also work, but ...

The iso was not really the point, it was a generic install example.

https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=kvm%20vmdk

hey look, how to migrate vmdk files to kvm

and this: "KVM has the ability to use VMware's .vmdk disk files
directly, as long as the disk is wholly contained in a single vmdk
file."

So, yeah,

kvm --help
kvm -m 1024 -hda file.vmdk -boot d

Have you tried it?