xen image conversion (or running live?)

[xurizaemon]

Does Parallels have tools to convert a single file which contains an ext3 partition's contents into a working VM?

We host a variety of systems on Xen, and I'd like to be able to take them on the road using Parallels. Is it possible to convert the file-based images we use to a Parallels VM?

By "file-based image", I mean a system which I've set up in Linux by doing the following (roughly speaking).

dd if=/dev/zero of=vm1/swap bs=1024k count=256
dd if=/dev/zero of=vm1/root bs=1024k count=4096
mkswap vm1/swap
mkfs.ext3 vm1/root
mount -o loop /vm1 /media/target
sudo debootstrap --arch i386 dapper /media/target http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

This is the bare system setup - it would be trivial to replicate the above steps in Parallels of course, but what I want to convert are the working systems which we use day-to-day, not a bare install.

 

[xurizaemon]

Even better would be if there's some way to run the resulting image unmodified

But I know that might be asking too much. Still, I can hope ...