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...
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