Can and How to move a VM from VMware to oVirt
Hi, I want to move a windows VM(managed by VMware Player in Windows7 host) to oVirt, can and how can i do it? Thanks. -- -------------------------------------------------- Zhang Jian Development Dept.I Nanjing Fujitsu Nanda Software Tech. Co., Ltd.(FNST) No.6 Wenzhu Road, Nanjing, 210012, China TEL: +86+25-86630566-8526 FUJITSU INTERNAL: 7998-8526 FAX: +86+25-83317685 MAIL: zhangjian2011@cn.fujitsu.com --------------------------------------------------
On Tuesday 09 December 2014 03:29 PM, zhangjian2011 wrote:
I want to move a windows VM(managed by VMware Player in Windows7 host) You can make use of virt-p2v utility to move a guest from vmware player to ovirt. Boot the guest from virt-p2v iso and connect it to virt-v2v conversion server and migrate the virtual machine.
On 12/09/2014 04:59 AM, zhangjian2011 wrote:
Hi,
I want to move a windows VM(managed by VMware Player in Windows7 host) to oVirt, can and how can i do it?
Thanks.
virt-v2v in general. the new version should support pointing to a file, so no need for an ESX server. it outputs the results into the ovirt export domain, then you can import it. very active work (patches in gerrit) to make this available from the GUI for 3.6.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 08:01:03AM -0500, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 12/09/2014 04:59 AM, zhangjian2011 wrote:
Hi,
I want to move a windows VM(managed by VMware Player in Windows7 host) to oVirt, can and how can i do it?
Thanks.
virt-v2v in general. the new version should support pointing to a file, so no need for an ESX server. it outputs the results into the ovirt export domain, then you can import it. very active work (patches in gerrit) to make this available from the GUI for 3.6.
Exactly as Itamar says. (1) Export it to an OVA file. (2) You will need RHEL or CentOS 7.0 (even a VM), and then to follow the instructions here: http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#resource-requirements https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-May/msg00090.html (3) Run virt-v2v by following these instructions: http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#output-to-rhev $ virt-v2v -i ova /path/to/your.ova -o rhev -os server:/esd (4) Coming soon: point and click import via the GUI. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
On 12/9/2014 3:59 AM, zhangjian2011 wrote:
Hi,
I want to move a windows VM(managed by VMware Player in Windows7 host) to oVirt, can and how can i do it?
Thanks.
This is the procedure I've used several times from ESXi, should be the same with any vmdk. Shutdown guest on ESXi (or use GhettoVCB to make a snapshot backup if you don’t want an outtage) NFS copy guest from ESXi server to temp storage somewhere qemu-img convert guest.vmdk -O raw guest.raw Create an oVirt guest with the appropriate OS type Add a disk of the same GB to the guest After oVirt finishes creating the disk, copy the guest.raw file over the disk image oVirt made boot guest and install qemu-agent, ovirt-agent, spice-agent (or better yet, do this before you shutdown on ESXi) remove VMware tools.
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