Hi Joop, Yes, that is an option but it also seems like an extra step that shouldn't be required. While in this instance that may not appear to be a big deal, in the future it's quite possible that we may decide to migrate our entire system from RHEV to Ovirt. Having to use additional steps for every VM to be migrated would result in far more downtime than we would be able to accommodate. Incidentally, I know of similar products but did not know about fsarchiver. I'll check that out, thanks. regard, John On 03/07/14 05:29, Joop wrote:
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
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