Hi Kris,
The VirtIO drivers' injection is necessary to use high-performance devices like virtIO
disks (virtio or virtio-SCSI) and virtio network interfaces.
If planning to use emulated devices, these drivers are not necessary.
In general, I do not import VMs to OpenStack. I prepare my specific OpenStack instances
(Linux, Windows, and Solaris ) using a KVM host and installing virtio native drivers.
For migration, you can install the VirtIO drivers before exporting VMs or use this
injection process.
Regarding importing a multi-disk instance into OpenStack, you may refer to glance
documentation. But, as you are migrating a VM, I think this process will be an exception
to importing disk by disk and adding it manually to your new OpenStack instance.
Marcos
From: KK CHN <kkchn.in(a)gmail.com>
Sent: quarta-feira, 25 de agosto de 2021 07:15
To: users <users(a)ovirt.org>
Subject: [External] : [ovirt-users] Injecting VirtIO drivers : Query
Hi,
I am in the process of importing multi disk Windows VMs from HyperV environment to
my OpenStack Setup( Ussuri version, glance and QEMU-KVM )
I am referring online documents as in the trailing lines. But Is this relevant to
inject VirtIO drivers to the Windows VMs ( as the articles date back to 2015) . Some
where it mentions when you perform P2V migration its necessary.
Is this VirtIO injection is necessary in my case ? I am exporting from HyperV and
importing to OpenStack.
1. Kindly advise me the relevance of VirtIO injection and is it applicable to my
requirements.
2. Is there any uptodate reference materials link for performing Windows Multidisk VM
importing to OpenStack(ussurin, glance and KVM) . Or Am I doing an impossible thing by
beat around the bush ?
These are the links which I referred but it too old : So the relevance of the contents
still applicable ? ( Windows VMs are Windows 2012 Server, 2008 and 2003 which I need
to import to OpenStack)
https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-to-migrate-from-vmware-and-h...
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e00000...
Kris