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

[Diego Remolina]

To my knowledge there is no easy way to import VMs from virtualbox into
ovirt/RHEV. I asked RH support (with a contract) and they said it is not
supported.

The way I did it is very painful, so I can tell you it is possible.

1. Use clonezilla ISO and boot your virtualbox vm from that ISO. Use
clonezilla to create an image to a share (samba or nfs)

2. Create the new VM in ovirt/RHEV and the virtual drive. Boot from
clonezilla and restore the image to the new virtual drive.

I tested this on Linux guests. For windows guests you may need to somehow
add the ovirt drivers to the image under virtualbox prior to cloning it.

Diego
On Dec 4, 2015 11:03, "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>
wrote:

>
> > 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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