So I followed exactly the instructions on how to run QEMU-KVM with VMware's disk images v6 directly:
kvm -drive file=zimbra-000001.vmdk,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=00:0c:29:c3:93:b9 -net tap -uuid 564d3f3d-3280-5bf2-9431-21c9b2c393b9
(replacing the various parameters with my own, of course, after looking them up in the VMX configuration file)
And instead of seeing the VM starting (as I am used to from my VMWare Workstation 6.5, running on an older Ubuntu), I receive:
Boot failed: not a bootable disk
I am running Ubuntu 14.04. Is there anything else that I needed to do before attempting this shortcut?
STOP: 0x00000074 (0x00000002,0x86973BA8,0x00000002,0xC000009A)
– Bill The Ape Jan 09 '15 at 19:04kvm-img convert -O qcow2
conversion completes successfully but upon running the VM, it generates the same exact BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO error. I think I am going to stick with VMWare, pointed to it via this howto. – Bill The Ape Jan 11 '15 at 09:00