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Convert SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 partition to VMDK/VDI/VHD?

I've read a few articles about converting a Windows partition using either the VMware tool or disk2vhd from sysinternals but nothing for unix that I can find. Does anyone know if there is a way to convert an old SCO OS 5.0.5 (or Linux for that…
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Tip for a good Database Converter Tool

I need often to convert a database from a database server to another, for example convert a database in MSSQL to a PostgreSQL or convert a MySQL to PostgreSQL, but also convertion between MySQL and Firebird. Is there a good tool that allow to…
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Converting NTFS to ZFS (or other)

Are there any benefits of converting HDDs that are running NTFS on a Linux machine to ZFS? Is there a way to do such conversion in Linux without losing the data? What about the stability of ZFS on Linux, does FUSE really work well in this case?…
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Can I convert my database/script to UTF-8?

How can I convert a database to support UTF-8 and convert it's old data from what ever encoding they're in to UTF-8 ? Extra Info: I'm running a server which has many websites on it, and one of them is running WHMCS (php script to manage hosting…
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Moving w2016 image from ESXi to KVM gives message "No Bootable Device"

I'm trying to move a windows server 2016 image from ESXi to KVM, but I'm receiving the error "No Bootable Devices" when I try to boot it. Here's the output of the command "virt-filesystems -a ~/VM.qcow2 --all --long --uuid -h" Name Type …
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Importing a machine from VMware to xenServer

I've exported my VM from VMWare and tried importing it into XenServer (xcp-ng 7.6) XenConvert 2.1.1 but I always get this error: Friday, May 24, 2019 11:15:04 XenConvert 2.1.1.2199 Copyright (c) 2001-2009 Citrix Systems, Inc. Microsoft Windows 7…
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Convert QCOW2 to VMDK (Citrix Xen)

Hy everyone, the search function does not come up with a propper solution. I want to convert a old KVM disk QCOW2 to an compatible Ctrix Xen disk e.g. VMDK with that qemu-img converting tool qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk /mnt/itstuff/disk.qcow2…
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How to save the converted file to another system by ffmpeg

i want to developing a service of online converter in local network by ffmpeg. the service receives address of file to converting and output address for put converted file to it. can ffmpeg do saving output file in another system in local network…
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OpenVZ to VMware / Hyper-v / KVM convertion

vzctl - 4.1 guest os - altlinux 5 (2.6.32) filesystem - simfs no ploop I need to convert/migrate/relocate a bunch of containers from legacy openvz server to vmware/kvm/hyper-v system. I tried to create vm and install the same altlinux 5, after that…
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Very slow imagemagick convert call when using AWS Lambda

I've got a relatively simple composite action that I'm carrying out with imagemagick on AWS Lambda. Why does it often take more than a minute to complete? This composites four smaller images "behind" a larger background that has transparent…
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Hyper-V how to connect compressed NTFS storage or convert it

I am on Windows Server 2012 R2, trying to connect to one Hyper-V virtual machine. The requested operation could not be completed due to a virtual disk system limitation. On NTFS, virtual hard disk files must be uncompressed and unencrypted. On…
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Convert Grub4Dos Volume to NTFS

I can't run Windows Backup because one of the critical volumes is not NTFS. I have identified the partition, but I want to make sure it is safe to convert to NTFS. I have 3 partitions: System Reserve (D:) NTFS (Primary Partition) Grub4DOS_BOOT…
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Change Gluster Volume Type

I would like to change a striped-replicate volume to striped-distributed volume, is this possible without rebuilding everything/data loss?
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Convert an HVM ec2 instance into something that can be run on a PV instance

I have a linux VM running on an esx-i server at home, and I would like to import the vmdk to aws using the ec2-import-instance command. However I really don't need this to be any larger of an instance then an m1.small but because it's a linux image,…
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Converting CELP audio files?

I've been tasked with converting CELP audio files (usually stored as .wav files) into a more mainstream format. CELP is a audio format specialized for speech and used in many voice recorders. Does anyone know of any program capable of converting…
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