Many ways to accomplish such a thing,  this is what I personnaly did:

• Make the virtio modules available at kernel boot
  
  • mkinitrd --with virtio_pci --with virtio_blk --with virtio_scsi -f /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
• boot on a rescue live centos with network enabled
  
• mount a (NFS) share
  
• dd if=/dev/sdX of=/mnt/share/os.img
• upload your disk with UI/API to ovirt
• manually define your vm by attaching this disk

This is what does virt-p2v under ther cover, but you do it it by your own.

a couple years ago i migrated a centos 4  physical box to an ovirt 3.6 vm using REAR.

http://relax-and-recover.org/

i did not have luck with virt-p2v.

sam

Morris, Roy wrote on 6/18/2019 4:48 PM:

I am also confused with the whole process. If anyone has a quick start guide or video I’d be interested in checking it out.

 

Best regards,

Roy Morris

 

 

From: Artem Tambovskiy <artem.tambovskiy@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 6:28 AM
To: users <users@ovirt.org>
Subject: [External] [ovirt-users] Does anyone have a positive experience with physical host to oVirt conversion?

 

 

Hello,

Just would like to check if it really possible to convert old Centos6 based physical box into oVirt 4.3 VM? I haven't been able to find any success stories on this and process seems a bit complicated. 
As I understand it I need a virt-v2v conversion proxy + image with virt-p2v running on physical host which needs to be converted. I'm a bit lost how I can get the converted VM into oVirt cluster than?

 

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Regards,

Artem

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