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

[Arman Khalatyan]

I remember that windows doesnot understand virtio and virtscsi disks. But
you can ude IDE disks then install the drivers under windows.
Am 05.12.2015 09:26 schrieb "Kiril L" <neohidra at gmail.com>:

> 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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