Re: [ovirt-users] Migration from VirtualBox to oVirt (do's and don'ts)

I was able to move my vms from virtualbox running on win7 to ovirt. The steps are following: 1)Export virtualbox vm to raw format. 2) upload it to export domain in ovirt 3) clone new vm from (2) setup hw as you need. I didnot try for windows guests, but debian an rh guests are moved without trouble. Am 04.12.2015 17:20 schrieb "Diego Remolina" <dijuremo(a)gmail.com&gt;: > To my knowledge there is no easy way to import VMs from virtualbox into > ovirt/RHEV. I asked RH support (with a contract) and they said it is not > supported. > > The way I did it is very painful, so I can tell you it is possible. > > 1. Use clonezilla ISO and boot your virtualbox vm from that ISO. Use > clonezilla to create an image to a share (samba or nfs) > > 2. Create the new VM in ovirt/RHEV and the virtual drive. Boot from > clonezilla and restore the image to the new virtual drive. > > I tested this on Linux guests. For windows guests you may need to somehow > add the ovirt drivers to the image under virtualbox prior to cloning it. > > Diego > On Dec 4, 2015 11:03, "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek(a)redhat.com&gt; > wrote: > >> >> > On 04 Dec 2015, at 14:16, Alexander Wels <awels(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> > >> > On Friday, December 04, 2015 03:03:25 PM Kiril L wrote: >> >> As it seems a new server will have to be deployed soon. There is >> >> almost no budget and i cannot afford more then one machine. >> >> >> >> Because of that i was wondering if it would be possible to use >> >> VirtualBox (for now) and later migrate to oVirt (when I manage to get >> >> a permission)? >> >> >> > >> > Any particular reason you want to use virtual box? Why not do KVM with >> virt >> > manager. That should be a painless conversion to oVirt since the >> format is the >> > same. >> >> Let alone there is much less overhead if the machine specs is not that >> great and there are no other hosts available >> >> Either way, importing KVM/libvirt VMs are currently a bit cumbersome >> (3.6 supports v2v from VMware only), but doable with few workarounds, and >> it’s certainly safer than VMware or VirtuaBox >> >> > >> >> I was wondering is there something that i have to do (when setting up >> >> the VM) in order to migrate at some point to oVirt? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Users mailing list >> >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Users mailing list >> > Users(a)ovirt.org >> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users