[ovirt-users] Migrate VirtualBox Vm into

Uwe Laverenz uwe at laverenz.de
Fri May 12 09:36:18 UTC 2017


Hi,

Am 09.05.2017 um 12:01 schrieb Gajendra Ravichandran:

> I tried to convert using virt-v2v
> as http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html. However, I get error as
> (Debian/ Linux cannot be converted).

Yes, virt-v2v only supports a limited number of operating systems, 
Debian is just not supported.

> I have exported the vm from virtualbox and have the image as .ova. Is
> there any way to migrate?

The only way I know of is to convert/migrate the harddisk of your guest 
machine and attach it to a newly created VM.

The necessary tools are "VBoxManage clonemedium ..." and qemu-img(1) for 
example.

cu,
Uwe


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