[Users] Can someone help me with moving a windows server 2008 to ovirt?

Andrew Cathrow acathrow at redhat.com
Wed Feb 29 16:03:12 UTC 2012


google for virt-v2v - it's a tool that allows you to migrate from an ESX server to RHEV, it'll work with oVirt too.



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dominic Kaiser" <dominic at bostonvineyard.org>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:00:54 AM
> Subject: [Users] Can someone help me with moving a windows server 2008 to	ovirt?
> 
> 
> So I have been looking at how to move windows 2008 and R2 servers
> from vmware esxi4 over to ovirt. I moved my Linux servers over with
> clonezilla. But windows needs a sysprep and generalize not to
> mention uninstalling vmtools and vmware drivers. I have done this. I
> then use clonezilla to put the image onto a thinprovisioned drive on
> ovirt. It starts to boot then blue screen of death. Am I missing
> something other than syspreping the windows machine and uninstalling
> the vmware drivers? Also is there a better way?
> 
> 
> P.S. Also I have ovirt up in a production envirenment and is running
> rock solid for the past month great job guys!
> 
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> 
> --
> Dominic Kaiser
> Greater Boston Vineyard
> Director of Operations
> 
> cell: 617-230-1412
> fax: 617-252-0238
> email: dominic at bostonvineyard.org
> 
> 
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