While involving in cloud computing project, migrate virtual machine image is a common activity in order to use current virtual machine image in EUCALYPTUS environment.
However, for non technical people to
- mount a loop file,
- list the partition in the mounted loop file and
- using disk dump (dd) to dump the partition to a file
is really not a straight forward job. To ease the user, I had build a java based GUI tool to solved the problem.
Following is the main features for Machine Image Tool (mitool)
- Export partition to new loop file
- Support Partition - primary
- Support loop file format - RAW
It able to read a machine image in RAW format (qcow and VMDK not yet support) then show user all the partitions that contain in the machine image. User can select a partition and export to a file. The exported file then can use as the disk image in EUCALYPTUS cloud computing platform.
To have a try on this tool, please visit
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mitool/.
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