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This is a easy 2 Step Tutorial (out of 3) for everybody who wants to migrate from VMware to XEN and other virtualisation technologies. Step 3 would be copy the data and alter the kernel etc.

Step 1 :

Convert the Virtual Disk into a RAW image:
# qemu-img convert wiki.vmdk wiki.raw

The RAW disk contains a partition table which we make visible with fdisk:
# fdisk -lu wiki.raw

Disk wiki.raw: 0 MB, 0 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, total 0 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
wiki.raw1              63    60565049    30282493+  83  Linux
wiki.raw2        60565050    62910539     1172745    5  Extended
wiki.raw5        60565113    62910539     1172713+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

(NOTE: The -u switch schow units instead of cylinders)

Important for Step 2 is the start sector of the partition

Step 2:

1. calc the Start Unit of the partition: # echo $(( 512*63 ))
2. loop mount the partition from disk image with offset:
   # mount -o loop,offset=32256 wiki.raw mnt/

Step 3:

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Strict Standards: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CET/1.0/no DST' instead in /homepages/21/d19413512/htdocs/SITES/haegele.info/tim/wp-includes/functions.php on line 32

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