StarWind V2V Converter Disk Writing Tutorial

At CatWrt, we have disabled the virtual hard disk provided by the default output of LEDE because the VMDK exported from the source code used in v22.8 cannot be started after restarting. It can only be manually opened or manually restarted in EXSI.

However, there is no such problem when using StarWind V2V Converter virtual machine writing software, so I wrote this blog post.

Download and Install#

You can download StarWind V2V Converter from its official website,

Here is also a download link provided by Lanzou Cloud.

https://wwd.lanzouy.com/b02dkbk7e
Password: 4e2a

After downloading, it will request UAC administrator permission once, click Yes to agree to authorize;

Next is the statement, click I accept the agreement to agree, and Next to proceed;

This page asks if you want to generate a desktop shortcut, by default, click next;

Click Install, after the installation is complete, click Finish, open StarWind V2V Converter on the desktop and agree to UAC permission.

Writing to Disk#

On the first page of the software, select the location of the image to convert

Select the local file Local file and click Next;

When selecting the image to write to disk, select the ... next to File name and select the image and click next;

When you reach the page "Select the location of the destination image", select the exported image to the local file, which is the default Local file and click next;

Here you can select the virtual hard disk you want to export

vmdk is the virtual hard disk file for VMware virtual machines
vhdx is the virtual hard disk file for Hyper-V virtual machines
qcow2 is the virtual hard disk file for Proxmox VE or KVM virtual machines

Here, let's focus on VMDK and VHD/VHDX, because qcow2 can be directly exported without too many options;

For VMDK, select the default option for VMDK image format, which is the growable disk space, or choose the second option, which is the preallocated disk space. Testing with "VMware Workstation growable image" should work fine.
For VHDX, select the third option for VHD/VHDX image format, which is the "VHDX growable image" to generate VHDX, or the default VHD should also work. I haven't played with Hyper-V before.

For other formats, you can refer to the official documentation, but it is in English.

The next step is to set the destination file name. In the ... of File name, you can place the generated file in the specified directory. Click Convert to start, wait for the Converting process to finish, and click Finish to exit.

Installation#

Here, let's take VMware ESXi as an example:

After logging in to the VMware ESXi backend, upload the file. In the sidebar, click Storage-Datastore Browser. It is recommended to create a directory to store the VMDK. Click "Create a folder" at the top;

You can name the directory as you like, as long as you can find it. After creating it, click the folder to select Upload, and select the VMDK file that was just created for the virtual hard disk upload;

After the upload is complete, close it. Create or edit an existing virtual machine, delete the original hard disk after completing other configurations, select "Delete files from datastore" and confirm to return to the settings;

Select Add Hard Disk-Existing Hard Disk, find the VMDK file in the folder that was just created, and set the controller position to "IDE Controller 0" to start OpenWrt.

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