[ovirt-users] win 2008 kvm import

[Michal Skrivanek]

On 30 May 2015, at 05:03, Grant Pasley wrote:

> thank you daniel, i will play around with this and see how it goes before trying it on a production machine.
> 
> thanks and regards,
> 
> grant pasley.
> xtranet.
> 
> On 5/29/2015 10:44 AM, Daniel Helgenberger wrote:
>> 
>> On 29.05.2015 02:53, Grant Pasley wrote:
>>> hi all,
>> Hello Grant,
>>> i am going to migrate a production windows 2008 image that is currently
>>> running on kvm over to ovirt 3.5.2 this weekend. are there any tips, any
>>> do's and dont's i should be aware of before doing this?
>> Well, if waiting for 3.6 is not an option (there, v2v integration is a

note that file-based kvm import probably won't be in 3.6 at GA time, possibly a bit later, so just a little bit more waiting:-) 3.6 GA will have VmWare vCenter only
command line can do whatever it could do before, including what you say below

>> major new feature [1]) you can use manual v2v command line [2] just as
>> well. This is non destructive and leaves the original VM intact. Basically:
>> 
>> # virt-v2v -o rhev -osd storage.example.com:/exportdomain --network
>> rhevm vm-name
>> 
>> The trick is '-o rhev'.
>> 
>> It basically drops the VM from libvirt on your export domain; it worked
>> quite well for me. It also takes care of installing virtio dirvers in
>> the image.
>> 
>> There where some pitfalls, though - I can't remember all of them. But
>> one is of course your old host needs have NTFS write support in some
>> way; and (at leat a year back) there was no package for the virtio
>> drivers on CentOS; but they just need to be put in the right place.
>> 
>>> should i install the windows guest tools before moving over or once
>>> done? what about having to install the virtio drivers when doing and new
>>> windows vm in order to see the disks, how is this
>>> achieved with an already created kvm image?

it's a kvm-to-kvm migration, nothing extra's needed in the guest, it should work just fine
I wonder if it would even need to write/read anything from that NTFS volume (dunno, check v2v/guesttools docs)

Post-conversion I'd recommend to install the guest tools (to get spice features, perhaps newer drivers, ovirt guest agent integration/reporting)

Thanks,
michal

>>> 
>> [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration
>> [2]
>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_for_Servers/2.2/html/Administration_Guide/virt-v2v-scripts.html
>> 
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