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

[Kiril L]

So there is nothing special setting I should look for which might prevent
migration to oVirt.

Thank you all!
On Dec 5, 2015 10:12, "Arman Khalatyan" <arm2arm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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