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

[Dan Yasny]

There used to be a qemu switch for win2k-hack, but afaik it's not needed
any longer

In any case, if it's a legacy machine, and not performance oriented, you
should be able to simply move the disk data over and start it up using IDE
disk drivers

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net> wrote:

> 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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