Virtualisation

KVM, XenServer and VMware image wrangling.

Convert .xva to .qcow2 (or raw)

23 January, 2014 1 min read 93 words
Turning a Citrix XenServer .xva export into a raw image with xenmigrate.py, then into qcow2 with qemu-img.

Run Citrix NetScaler VPX from KVM

23 January, 2014 1 min read 87 words
Running Citrix NetScaler VPX on KVM by converting the Hyper-V disk, plus the missing default route and the virtio interface catch.

How to increase VM disk size without re-deploy the machine

13 July, 2012 1 min read 118 words
Growing a Linux VM disk in place with a new partition, pvcreate, vgextend, lvextend and resize2fs, with no redeploy.