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

[Arman Khalatyan]

I was able to move my vms from virtualbox running on win7 to ovirt.
The steps are following:
1)Export virtualbox vm to raw format.
2) upload it to export domain in ovirt
3) clone new vm from (2) setup hw as you need.
I didnot try for windows guests, but debian an rh guests are moved without
trouble.
Am 04.12.2015 17:20 schrieb "Diego Remolina" <dijuremo at gmail.com>:

> 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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