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

Alexandr Krivulya shuriku at shurik.kiev.ua
Thu Apr 2 06:19:41 UTC 2015


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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