[ovirt-users] Import KVM/libvirt VMs to oVirt

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:13 PM,  <ovirt at timmi.org> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> finally I managed to install oVirt on my new server and so far it is really
> great.
>
> The next step on my side it to migrate VMs from another server
> (KVM/libvirtd/virt-manager) to oVirt.
> I was trying to find something in the documentation but so far no luck.
>
> Google was pointing me to tow options:
>
> - virt-v2v
> - import-to-ovirt.pl (script from Richard WM Jones)
>
>
> Currently I'm trying to migrate a Win7 VM (with VirtIO) with import_to_ovirt
> bzt I receive the following error message:
> ./import-to-ovirt.pl: no operating system was found on the disk
>
> I'm executing the following command:
> ./import-to-ovirt.pl /path-to-image-file/disk.img hostname:/export-domain
>
> Is anyone able to support me here?
> As both systems are running KVM there should be a quite easy way to migrate
> the VMs or not?

Adding Richard.

IIRC people managed to do that by merely creating a new vm and copying the
existing one over the new empty disk. No idea about details, you might want
to search the list archives.

Best,
-- 
Didi