Ubuntu – Web-Based Virtual Machine Manager

Cloud.com Cloudstack runs on Ubuntu 10.04. Obviously Eucalyptus too. I know you don't want cloud features, but you can just ignore them if you want. Perfectly viable as plain hypervisor management, so long as you have an external management box.

As you've noticed, other tools like Karesansui and oVirt are packaged only for RHEL/Centos

Convirture is alright, I'm actually surprised you had trouble importing. I think their update / patching process could be improved.

In short do next in any linux box (RHEL/CentOS/etc) with installed qemu:

1. Create disk image file by qemu-img create -f raw <image> <size (e.g. 4G)>
2. Convert it to vmdk qemu-img convert -f raw <qemu-image> -O <vmplayer-image (.vmdk ext)>
3. Create a .vmx file

Example:

Type in command line

qemu-img create -f raw /tmp/image.img 4G 
qemu-img convert -f raw /tmp/image.img -O /tmp/vmplayer-image.vmdk

And create vmplayer.vmx file (you can do this in Windows as well).

vi /tmp/vmplayer.vmx

Type i and insert next:

config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "3"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.filename = "vmplayer-image.vmdk"
memsize = "128"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
usb.present = "FALSE"
sound.present = "FALSE"
displayName = "some OS"
guestOS = "other26xlinux"
nvram = "someos.nvram"
MemTrimRate = "-1"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
uuid.location = "56 4d 0d 92 c9 cd 3c 25-c5 bf 91 91 43 5d bf 33"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 0d 92 c9 cd 3c 25-c5 bf 91 91 43 5d bf 33"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:5d:bf:33"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
uuid.action = "create"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"

Type [Esc]:wq

Or guestOS = "winxppro" for Win XP Pro

So you will need next files for VMWare Player:

• /tmp/vmplayer-image.vmdk
• /tmp/vmplayer.vmx

You can download them to Windows machine using WinSCP util.

You will need to run vmplayer.vmx in VMWare Player.

Here is complete guide.