[ovirt-users] Is there a plan to allow VM migration?

[John Gardeniers]

Hi Russ,

Could it be that you're over-thinking this? Why can't Ovirt simply
export VMs to a standard format, preferably of course one already used
elsewhere, such as ovf? That way it's a straight one-to-one.

regards,
John


On 06/08/14 08:57, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, John Gardeniers wrote:
>
>> As per the subject, is there a plan to allow VM migration? By that I
>> import that into the destination machine. That's slow, cumbersome and
>> still requires the VMs configuration to be manually duplicated.
> The problem we have run into when trying to implement 
> automated assistance on image migrations between different 
> backing store, is that the bootloader / initrd fixups are not 
> deterministic and 'doable' as between grub, grub2, and other 
> 'first stage'
>
> I would love a solution, but after much experimentation, I 
> just don't see a good path to solving this in a general form.  
> (it is not a many spokes to one common interchange format, and 
> then one to new spoke transition, but rather a many to many 
> problem)
>
> Perhaps the libguestfs uplift mentioned for a few months from 
> now with the RHEL 7.1 updates will help
>
> -- Russ herrold
>
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