Steps to migrate a VMware VM to KVM

Migrate VMware workstation to qemu+kvm

1) Deleted all vmware snapshots for the VM. sync. sync.
2) Followed rwmj's guide to setting up a br0 device for libvirt in Fedora.[0]
3) Grabbed vmware2libvirt[1] from Ubuntu (it's just a standalone python script) and
   used it with --bridge br0 -f foo.vmx > foo.xml.
4) Converted my vmdk to raw with qemu-img[2], moved it to /var/lib/libvirtd per
   instructions[3]
5) Edited my xml to point to the right disk, use the qemu/raw driver, use the right
   path for kvm (/usr/bin/qemu-kvm on Fedora).

5.a) Configure a unix socket serial device (like VMware's "pipe" mode):

  ...
  <devices>
    <serial type="unix">
      <source mode="bind" path="/path/to/socket_name"/>
      <target port="1"/>
    </serial>
  </devices>
  ...

6) Import into libvirt with virsh define foo.xml
7) virsh start foo

Optional:
8) virsh autostart foo  # Auto-starts the VM on host boot

Accessing console (from remote client with ssh to VM host):
9) virt-viewer -c qemu+ssh://<kvm_host>/system --wait --reconnect <vm_name>

Or with the unix socket and socat:
10) socat UNIX-CONNECT:/path/to/socket_name -,raw,echo=0,b115200,escape=0x1d

[0]: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Bridged_networking_.28aka_.22shared_physical_device.22.29
[1]: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/virt-goodies/trunk/view/head:/vmware2libvirt
[2]: qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw foo.vmdk foo.raw.img
[3]: https://justdavis.com/karl/it/davis/servers/eddings/vms.html (Ubuntu, but partially relevant for Fedora)