Migration from VirtualBox to oVirt (do's and don'ts)
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)? 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?
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.
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@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
On 04 Dec 2015, at 14:16, Alexander Wels <awels@redhat.com> 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@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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@redhat.com> wrote:
On 04 Dec 2015, at 14:16, Alexander Wels <awels@redhat.com> 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@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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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@gmail.com>:
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@redhat.com> wrote:
On 04 Dec 2015, at 14:16, Alexander Wels <awels@redhat.com> 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@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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So there is nothing special setting I should look for which might prevent migration to oVirt. Thank you all! On Dec 5, 2015 10:12, "Arman Khalatyan" <arm2arm@gmail.com> wrote:
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@gmail.com>:
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@redhat.com> wrote:
On 04 Dec 2015, at 14:16, Alexander Wels <awels@redhat.com> 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@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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I remember that windows doesnot understand virtio and virtscsi disks. But you can ude IDE disks then install the drivers under windows. Am 05.12.2015 09:26 schrieb "Kiril L" <neohidra@gmail.com>:
So there is nothing special setting I should look for which might prevent migration to oVirt.
Thank you all! On Dec 5, 2015 10:12, "Arman Khalatyan" <arm2arm@gmail.com> wrote:
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@gmail.com>:
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@redhat.com> wrote:
On 04 Dec 2015, at 14:16, Alexander Wels <awels@redhat.com> 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@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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