[ovirt-users] Migration from VirtualBox to oVirt (do's and don'ts)

[Michal Skrivanek]

> On 04 Dec 2015, at 14:16, Alexander Wels <awels at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Friday, December 04, 2015 03:03:25 PM Kiril L wrote:
>> As it seems a new server will have to be deployed soon. There is
>> almost no budget and i cannot afford more then one machine.
>> 
>> Because of that i was wondering if it would be possible to use
>> VirtualBox (for now) and later migrate to oVirt (when I manage to get
>> a permission)?
>> 
> 
> Any particular reason you want to use virtual box? Why not do KVM with virt 
> manager. That should be a painless conversion to oVirt since the format is the 
> same.

Let alone there is much less overhead if the machine specs is not that great and there are no other hosts available

Either way, importing KVM/libvirt VMs are currently a bit cumbersome (3.6 supports v2v from VMware only), but doable with few workarounds, and it’s certainly safer than VMware or VirtuaBox

> 
>> I was wondering is there something that i have to do (when setting up
>> the VM) in order to migrate at some point to oVirt?
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