On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:31:49AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@redhat.com> writes:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:23:04 -0500 Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> wrote:
Can virt-v2v convert back from ovirt format to VMware format?
If you're asking about VM conversion then the answer is no. virt-v2v converts only to KVM, not the other way around.
Oh, that's too bad. I wonder how hard it would be to add that?
It's not something that we'd do for virt-v2v. It's hard enough converting VMs to work on KVM as it is, and virt-v2v is a tool designed to make it easier to convert to KVM only.
Is there any way to take a VM from ovirt and migrate it to VMware?
If you're asking about the disks then the question is incorrect. The right tool for this kind of operation is qemu-img. And yes, it can convert from raw/QCow2 to VMDK.
Converting a disk is only part of the issue! I need to perform the same operations virt-v2v does to convert from VMware to ovirt, but do it in reverse.
Good luck! If new drivers have to be installed, then that is a hard problem. As discussed above, virt-v2v only solves that in the KVM direction. However if the guest only depends on basic devices (IDE, RTL8139 network card, standard VGA), then it may just run on any hypervisor. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html