On 2-7-2014 3:23, John Gardeniers wrote:
Hi All,
We need get get a VM from our client's system in the UK to our system in Australia, so this isn't just migrating between clusters or datacenters. I know it's easy enough to export a VM and copy its image file from the export storage area but what's the procedure to import it into the second system? Can I just plonk the file into out import/export storage (I really doubt it) or do I need to do something else with it? I know I can import it easily enough into a KVM/Qemu system and then do a V2V from there but that seems like a step that shouldn't be required.
Have I missed something really obvious or is this one of those things people don't do very often?
You probably have thought about this too but is using a program like fsarchiver an option? It will optionally compress the backup and optionally will allow you to change disklayout when restoring. Joop