Migrate VM from VMWare to Xen hypervisor

[Grant Shanklin]

Hello,

 

I am building out my penetration testing lab and working on learning metasploit. I need use a metasploitable VM on my Xen hypervisor server but I can only find metasplotiable as a VMWare VM. Is there either...

1. A way to convert a VMWare VM to my Xen Server
2. or an iso download online somewhere for metasploitable
3. or a way to use VMWare VMs on my Xen server

 

Thanks for the help. Much appreciated

[Alan Lantz]

The easiest way would probably be the VMWare Player. Running a VMWare VM on XenServer won't work, 

you could try getting Kali Linux to work under XenServer (even though it is not explicitly supported). Trying

to convert a VMWare VM to run on XenServer may be possible, but that could also lead into hours of 

getting that to work as well.

 

--Alan--

 

[Tobias Kreidl]

OVF files are the common standard. See this article how to export and import VMs from VMware into Xenserver: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX116603

You have to convert the VMs as they will not run natively as such.

 

-=Tobias