[ovirt-users] Migration from Xenserver 6.2 to KVM.

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Alex Crow <acrow at integrafin.co.uk> wrote:

>  Is there a way to export the VM disk images from Xenserver? If so you
> should be able to spin them up on a KVM host and then use v2v to import
> these into oVirt.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
>
>
Probably the main problem is with PV VMs and so the problem could be
re-read in how convert them to HVM and then apply P2V iso.
This link below is the reverse (HVM-2-PV) but the method idea in your case
could fit what described:
https://netnow.co/xen-virtual-machine-conversion-from-hvm-to-pv/

Inside the article there is in fact a link to do the reverse:
http://djlab.com/2010/10/convert-xenserver-hvm-to-pv-paravirtual/

that you can use, if still feasible (XenServer 4.x described vs your
XenServer 6.x) to migrate to HVM layout and boot method.
Then you can migrate the obtained VM with P2V iso provided by RHEV/oVirt

It seems it worked for someone (late 2013), as described in latest post
here:
https://access.redhat.com/discussions/451463
(comments visible also for not registered users)

Gianluca
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