Is there a command-line tool to extract files from a VMDK file? WinImage seems to be able to do it, but it's GUI only.
I need to copy some VMs from one datastore to another. I'm running ESX 3.5 U3, VMs are mostly Windows-based. I don't care about data integrity since it's only to test NetApps deduplication on the target destination and the VMs will never be running from this files. Since the VMs are used, i cannot shut them down. If I try to copy it with 'cp' of course I get errors complaining about locked files.
E.g.: "cp: cannot open ....vmdk' for reading: Device or resource busy"
Is there a trick to do this? With dd or cpio?
Regards
Is it possible to convert a VMWare vmdk image file to physical hardisk drive? I know VMWare 6.5 can use physical harddisk drive directly to get good performance, can I convert an existing vmdk file to physical harddisk drive go gain better performance?
What's the best way to convert a VMWare VMDK HDD file to a HyperV VHD file?
I've been tasked with converting our environment to HyperV for evaluation purposes. We are MSDN subscribers, so the MS software for the job is probably available to me if you know it.
I have been having hit or miss success with "vmdk2vhd" - about half the time it tells me "Invalid vmdk" and as far as I know they should be fine.
I have a VMware virtual machine that I made quite large. I am not really using most of it, so I would like to reduce it by 50% or so.
Is there a tool to do this?