Re: [ovirt-users] migrating VMS from old hosted engine to new hosted engine

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:13 AM, Paul Groeneweg | Pazion <paul(a)pazion.nl&gt; wrote: > We are moving our VMs from an old 3.6 oVirt platform to a new oVirt 4.1 > platform. > > I am looking for an easy way to migrate the VMs. ( I know about export > domain, but this takes 2 times a copy action ) I tested and just detaching > the Data domain and attaching it, didn't work. > > It should work, and is the easiest way by far. Can you share more details on what did not work for you? Y. > Then I found the VM import option: > - Adding a ssh key gen and setting password on virsh > - load a list of machines in the webinterface from VM import > - when I start an import the system complains: > The following VMs retrieved from external server > qemu+ssh://root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/system are not in down status: VM > [VM-NAME]. > - I tried to suspend the VM, but this didn;t work either ( same error ) > - Problem is ,when VM is shutdown, it disappears from this system list. > > Is there a way to directly import a VM from old oVirt platform to the new > platform > > Looking forward to find a solution to quickly migrate our VMs. > > Best Regards, > > Paul Groeneweg > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >