{"id":834,"date":"2015-06-25T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2015-06-25T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T21:00:38","slug":"kvm-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"KVM Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long elapsed period, I finally found a site which gave good instructions on how to move a VMware Windows 7 machine to KVM. That site is <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1X8TaBP1v_rh8e2QXDGFmkmzoPB13Pvp2V0FQ630VCsU\/edit\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1X8TaBP1v_rh8e2QXDGFmkmzoPB13Pvp2V0FQ630VCsU\/edit<\/a>. (Googled for qemu import qcow2).<\/p>\n<p>After converting the image using <code>qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 Windows7-1.vmdk \/VMbackups2\/Windows7-1.qcow2<\/code> the instructions turned out to be very simple.<\/p>\n<p>Result! I now have a Windows 7 desktop running under KVM on Centos 7! Next I will convert Windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, yesterday I started a new job as a solutions architect for HSBC in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long elapsed period, I finally found a site which gave good instructions on how to move a VMware Windows 7 machine to KVM. That site is https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1X8TaBP1v_rh8e2QXDGFmkmzoPB13Pvp2V0FQ630VCsU\/edit. (Googled for qemu import qcow2). After converting the image using qemu-img &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-technology","category-virtualisation","tag-hsbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}