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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>we’re currently using oVirt engine3.0 and have about 50 VMs successfully running ( thanks for your great work!!) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>At the moment we do migrate ESX/KVM VMs and baremetal servers to oVirt.<br>For p2v migration we’re using virt-p2v 0.87 (iso created from rpm virt-p2v-image-builder)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Migration is working fine, but the vdisk size is accordingly to original physical hdd size.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>For example:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Server with 500 GB HDD size, partitions (swap,/,boot) shrinked to ~50 GB.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(df –h will show only 50 GB for / )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>First I thought, shrinking partitions of the server will help out,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>But unfortunately, the tool is using the whole hard disk space to convert (using dd ?)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>…and so we have a successfully migrated VM in oVirt with 500GB vHDD size.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Is there any way or alternative software we can use for P2V migration?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Sven.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#5A5A5A;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Sven Knohsalla | Systems Administration <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:DE'><a href="http://www.netbiscuits.com/"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#BF000D'>Netbiscuits - Enabling the mobile experience</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#BF000D;mso-fareast-language:DE'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#5A5A5A;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Update:</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#505050;mso-fareast-language:DE'> </span><span style='mso-fareast-language:DE'><a href="http://www.netbiscuits.com/jobs"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#BF000D'>Netbiscuits is hiring mobile specialists in sales, marketing and development</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#BF000D;mso-fareast-language:DE'> <span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#5A5A5A;mso-fareast-language:DE'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:DE'><a href="http://www.netbiscuits.com/awards"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#C00000'>Recent awards & accolades</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#5A5A5A;mso-fareast-language:DE'><br>Mobile Entertainment Award Winner 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#5A5A5A;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2011, ranked #28<br>Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.netbiscuits.com/press-details/-/asset_publisher/0aS6/content/netbiscuits-wins-best-mobile-web-publishing-platform-accolade-for-the-second-time?redirect=%2Fpress-details%2F"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#5A5A5A;mso-fareast-language:DE;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=154 height=67 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD814D.69B18940" alt="Beschreibung: Beschreibung: Beschreibung: http://www.netbiscuits.com/image/image_gallery?uuid=45e4676e-f783-42c7-8e34-de7b37986c27&groupId=10211&t=1322830528919"></span></a><a href="http://www.netbiscuits.com/press-details/-/asset_publisher/0aS6/content/netbiscuits-ranked-among-the-50-fastest-growing-technology-companies-in-germany-again?redirect=%2Fpress-details%2F"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#5A5A5A;mso-fareast-language:DE;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=169 height=66 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CD814D.69B18940" alt="Beschreibung: Beschreibung: Beschreibung: http://www.netbiscuits.com/image/image_gallery?uuid=5126cc7e-90cb-4173-bd2f-c5294548f996&groupId=10211&t=1322830528927"></span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#5A5A5A;mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#5A5A5A;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Register Court: Local Court Kaiserslautern | Commercial Register ID: HR B 3604<br>Management Board: Guido Moggert, Michael Neidhoefer, Christian Reitz, Martin Suess<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>