Re: [Users] How to import KVM machines into oVirt iSCSI
Hi,
The following command migrates a KVM vm named "test-rhel6" to your
export domain "ovirt-engine:/data/nfs/export" with qcow2, thin
provisioned disk and ovirtmgmt-network from KVM host "kvm-host":
# virt-v2v -i libvirt -ic qemu+ssh://root@kvm-host/system -o rhev -os
ovirt-engine:/data/nfs/export -of qcow2 -oa sparse -n ovirtmgmt
test-rhel6
See "virt-v2v --help" for details...
You can also create a profile in /etc/virt-v2v.conf to avoid command
line arguments for virt-v2v...
For migration you need an export domain which must be NFS (not iSCSI).
So the migration steps are:
1. create export domain
2. activate export domain on datacenter
3. install virt-v2v on ovirt engine host
4. migrate host to export domain
5. import vm from export domain
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Best Regards
René Koch
Senior Solution Architect
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E-Mail: r.koch(a)ovido.at
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On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 11:43 +0100, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
Hi,
Reading the docs all day long helped me to setup a nice Data center in
iSCSI mode, connected to a big LUN in a san.
Many many points are working, mostly thanks to you, people of this list.
Apart from this oVirt setup (1 manager, 3 nodes, 1 san), I have a
completely separated ubuntu hypervisor running a standalone local KVM
with a local storage.
I have not a clear view of how I will manage to import these VM into oVirt.
Of course, I've read about ovirt-v2v (and its huge amount of
dependencies...), but I'm not sure this is the way I have to follow?
As far as I've understood, v2v seems to be dedicated to connection
between oVirt datacenters, or vmware or Xen plateforms, but I see
nothing about the connection to a distant standalone KVM hypervisor.
One more thing that is unclear to me, and seems related, is the notion
of export / import domain. I read that this principle could allow me to
export (then to backup) my VMs. This could help me to import some VMs.
But I read that this export domain has to be the same type of my
datacenter (iscsi), so this is not helping me with my standalone kvm
hypervisor.
I'd be glad to get some light on these points.