[Users] How to resize physical disk size with virt-p2v

[Allon Mureinik]

Hi Sven, 

Have you tried qemu-img? 
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> ----- Original Message -----

> > From: "Sven Knohsalla" <s.knohsalla at netbiscuits.com>
> 
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> 
> > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:48:45 PM
> 
> > Subject: [Users] How to resize physical disk size with virt-p2v
> 

> > Hi,
> 
> > we’re currently using oVirt engine3.0 and have about 50 VMs
> > successfully running ( thanks for your great work!!)
> 

> > At the moment we do migrate ESX/KVM VMs and baremetal servers to
> > oVirt.
> 
> > For p2v migration we’re using virt-p2v 0.87 (iso created from rpm
> > virt-p2v-image-builder)
> 
> > Migration is working fine, but the vdisk size is accordingly to
> > original physical hdd size.
> 
> > For example:
> 
> > Server with 500 GB HDD size, partitions (swap,/,boot) shrinked to
> > ~50
> > GB.
> 
> > (df –h will show only 50 GB for / )
> 

> > First I thought, shrinking partitions of the server will help out,
> 
> > But unfortunately, the tool is using the whole hard disk space to
> > convert (using dd ?)
> 
> > …and so we have a successfully migrated VM in oVirt with 500GB vHDD
> > size.
> 

> > Is there any way or alternative software we can use for P2V
> > migration?
> 

> > Thanks in advance,
> 
> > Sven.
> 

> > Sven Knohsalla | Systems Administration
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