[ovirt-users] Basic export/import question (KVM to oVirt)

[Bellamy, Peter]

Thank you kindly!  My first few test exports from KVM & imports into oVirt worked smoothly.


> On Apr 2, 2015, at 2:19 AM, Alexandr Krivulya <shuriku at shurik.kiev.ua> wrote:
> 
> 01.04.2015 23:08, Bellamy, Peter пишет:
>> Is it necessary to export VMs that are straight libvirt/KVM (raw) images before importing them into oVirt?
>> 
>> I have a working oVirt 3.5 lab environment up & I’d like to try and bring in some of my existing VMs from my straight KVM/libvirt setup.  Those VMs are in raw image format.
>> 
>> I *think* I need to export the VMs (using virt-v2v) from the KVM hosts to an export domain, then import those VM images into oVirt (using oVirt admin GUI).  Is that correct, or is it simpler than that?
>> 
> Yes, you are absolutely right. We moved all our infrastructure from pure
> KVM (VM disks inside LVM) to oVirt in this way, except of FreeBSD VM's
> that we moved via zfs send/recv.
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