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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Basically, I boot windows in safe mode and remove vmware tools. In this case I was able to use old VM if there are issues with conversion. Of course you can remove vmware tools
before migration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Linux VMs do not need the convertor. The procedure is much simpler:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">1. Make sure you don't use device names in /etc/fstab and grub
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">2. Make sure initramfs has required drivers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">dracut -f --add-drivers "virtio virtio_net virtio_blk virtio_scsi virtio_pci"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">3. Create appropriate VM in oVirt. Disks must be in raw format (default), but sparse. NICs must have the same MACs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">4. Hard link vmware and ovirt disk images, and fix permissions (chown 36:36 / chmod 0660)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">5. Shutdown VM in vmware and immediately start VM in oVirt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 17/06/16 16:08, "Cam Mac" <<a href="mailto:iucounu@gmail.com">iucounu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just to clarify: I've read on the virt-v2v page that you should remove the VMware tools from the Windows VM before migration - for step 13 in your list, does that apply only to non-windows VMs?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Cam Mac <<a href="mailto:iucounu@gmail.com" target="_blank">iucounu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was testing an import of a Win 7 VM, though there are 2012 ones to import as well. Thanks for all those steps, I'll try them out.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Pavel Gashev <<a href="mailto:Pax@acronis.com" target="_blank">Pax@acronis.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Cam,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">I did import vmware VMs, but it was not an easy procedure. Last time I did it, there were the following issues:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">* oVirt engine didn't support 32bit VMs. If you have a 32bit VM in vCenter, you are not able to see the list VMs to
import.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">* There were issues if you have a cluster in vCenter. I had to setup a proxy server to fix URLs on the fly, but then
I've found a better way. See below.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">* RHEL/CentOS virt-v2v does't support 2012 and greater. I had to use virt-v2v from Fedora.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Thus, if you want to convert it
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">manually, the procedure is the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">1.
</span><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Install vdsm-hook-nestedvt on ovirt nodes, and reboot</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">2. Setup a VM with latest Fedora, install virt-v2v.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">3. Mount your NFS storage inside v2v VM.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">4. Move windows VMs to the same NFS storage.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">5. Connect to vcenter using the following command:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">virsh -c vpx://vcenter/Folder/Datacenter/Cluster/server?no_verify=1</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">6. Find windows VM using 'list' command, and dump config using 'dumpxml VMNAME/ID'</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">7. Edit the xml providing full path to vmdk images (see «source file=»)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">8. Create appropriate VM in oVirt</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">9. Find new VM IDs using ovirt-shell</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">10. Make sure the source VM is stopped</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">11. Execute virt-v2v (make sure:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">virt-v2v -v -x -i libvirtxml VM.xml -o vdsm -of qcow2 -os /nfs/b1b74392-8f46-4a25-aeef-5344ac692c73 --vdsm-image-uuid
368487a5-d7f2-43d2-bd61-d15abbc5c482 --vdsm-vol-uuid 2f56c6cd-a212-44e6-a792-447787f5b073 --vdsm-vm-uuid 421e93a8-33d2-fc0e-4cfc-ac45a35db8c9
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">12. Fix resulting disk pemissions (chown 36:36 / chmod 0660)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">13. Now you can start VM in oVirt. Remove vmware tools, and install oVirt tools and drivers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">I hope this helps.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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on behalf of <a href="mailto:iucounu@gmail.com" target="_blank">iucounu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I haven't had any luck using the oVirt GUI or virt-v2v (see earlier email), and I need to find a way to migrate quite a few Windows hosts (Windows 7, 2012, 2008, 2k3 etc) into my
test oVirt cluster as a PoC so I can make a compelling case for getting rid of VMware. Using OVF files looks like a lot more manual work as compared to the GUI or virt-v2v, with their nice conversion features.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Any suggestions?<o:p></o:p></p>
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