[Users] Making v2v easier?

[Sven Kieske]

Hi,

I myself have no experience with this so far, but I can quote "blaster"
from the ML:

Blaster wrote:
>I haven’t tried this yet, but if I had to move a VM from ESXi to oVirt
>this is how I would do it…
>(actually, this is how I did it with Windows 7 guests…)

>Shutdown guest on ESXi  (or use GhettoVCB to make a snapshot backup if
>you don’t want an outtage)
>NFS copy guest from ESXi server to temp storage somewhere
>qemu-img convert guest.vmdk -O raw guest.raw
>Create an oVirt guest with the appropriate OS type
>Add a disk of the same GB to the guest
>After oVirt finishes creating the disk, copy the guest.raw file over
>the disk image oVirt made
>boot guest and install qemu-agent, ovirt-agent, spice-agent (or better
>yet, do this before you shutdown on ESXi)
>remove VMware tools.

>The importing and virt2v procedure seems far to complex and error
>prone to me.

Maybe he can add something :)

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards

Sven Kieske

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