Re: [ovirt-users] win 2008 kvm import

On 29.05.2015 02:53, Grant Pasley wrote: > hi all, Hello Grant, > i am going to migrate a production windows 2008 image that is currently > running on kvm over to ovirt 3.5.2 this weekend. are there any tips, any > do's and dont's i should be aware of before doing this? Well, if waiting for 3.6 is not an option (there, v2v integration is a major new feature [1]) you can use manual v2v command line [2] just as well. This is non destructive and leaves the original VM intact. Basically: # virt-v2v -o rhev -osd storage.example.com:/exportdomain --network rhevm vm-name The trick is '-o rhev'. It basically drops the VM from libvirt on your export domain; it worked quite well for me. It also takes care of installing virtio dirvers in the image. There where some pitfalls, though - I can't remember all of them. But one is of course your old host needs have NTFS write support in some way; and (at leat a year back) there was no package for the virtio drivers on CentOS; but they just need to be put in the right place. > should i install the windows guest tools before moving over or once > done? what about having to install the virtio drivers when doing and new > windows vm in order to see the disks, how is this > achieved with an already created kvm image? > [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration [2] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtuali...