[ovirt-users] Migrating old VMWare VM to oVirt?

Chris Adams cma at cmadams.net
Tue Sep 1 16:17:55 UTC 2015


Once upon a time, Jiri Belka <jbelka at redhat.com> said:
> > From: "Chris Adams" <cma at cmadams.net>
> > I have an ancient VM that I need to migrate to oVirt if possible.  It is
> > Windows 2000 Server on VMWare ESXi 4.1 (yeah, I know, please don't
> > laugh).
> > 
> > Is there any possiblity of making this work?  Reinstalling the Windows
> > system (or upgrading) is just not practical at this time, and I need to
> > get this thing off of the old VMWare box.
> 
> check v2v https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/V2V_Guide/#subsect-convert-a-esx-guest

I've looked at that, but virt-v2v documentation says its Windows support
starts with XP.  Also, I don't think any of the Windows virtio drivers
go back to 2000 either.

-- 
Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>



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