I have an ancient VM that I need to migrate to oVirt if possible. It is Windows 2000 Server on VMWare ESXi 4.1 (yeah, I know, please don't laugh). Is there any possiblity of making this work? Reinstalling the Windows system (or upgrading) is just not practical at this time, and I need to get this thing off of the old VMWare box. -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
From: "Chris Adams" <cma@cmadams.net> To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 5:04:10 PM Subject: [ovirt-users] Migrating old VMWare VM to oVirt?
I have an ancient VM that I need to migrate to oVirt if possible. It is Windows 2000 Server on VMWare ESXi 4.1 (yeah, I know, please don't laugh).
Is there any possiblity of making this work? Reinstalling the Windows system (or upgrading) is just not practical at this time, and I need to get this thing off of the old VMWare box.
check v2v https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/htm... (in fact rhevm is ovirt) j.
Once upon a time, Jiri Belka <jbelka@redhat.com> said:
From: "Chris Adams" <cma@cmadams.net> I have an ancient VM that I need to migrate to oVirt if possible. It is Windows 2000 Server on VMWare ESXi 4.1 (yeah, I know, please don't laugh).
Is there any possiblity of making this work? Reinstalling the Windows system (or upgrading) is just not practical at this time, and I need to get this thing off of the old VMWare box.
check v2v https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/htm...
I've looked at that, but virt-v2v documentation says its Windows support starts with XP. Also, I don't think any of the Windows virtio drivers go back to 2000 either. -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
There used to be a qemu switch for win2k-hack, but afaik it's not needed any longer In any case, if it's a legacy machine, and not performance oriented, you should be able to simply move the disk data over and start it up using IDE disk drivers On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
Once upon a time, Jiri Belka <jbelka@redhat.com> said:
From: "Chris Adams" <cma@cmadams.net> I have an ancient VM that I need to migrate to oVirt if possible. It is Windows 2000 Server on VMWare ESXi 4.1 (yeah, I know, please don't laugh).
Is there any possiblity of making this work? Reinstalling the Windows system (or upgrading) is just not practical at this time, and I need to get this thing off of the old VMWare box.
check v2v https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/htm...
I've looked at that, but virt-v2v documentation says its Windows support starts with XP. Also, I don't think any of the Windows virtio drivers go back to 2000 either.
-- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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