[ovirt-users] best way to migrate VMs from VMware to oVirt

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I wasn't either and was beating my head against the wall trying to get 
it to work and finally found a post that mentioned it.  In hindsight it 
makes sense because the vdsm account is what it runs under but nowhere 
in any document I've found from RH or oVirt on conversion does it 
mention running as vdsm.  I guess the poster of that site had the same 
problem.

Good luck.


On 06/16/2016 07:26 AM, Cam Mac wrote:
> Hi Brett,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Yes, I tried the GUI, and it failed (the 
> original email is at: 
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-June/040298.html, which 
> includes log files). I wasn't aware that virt-v2v doesn't like being 
> run as root, so I will try it as user vdsm. I will try your other 
> suggestions too, and post the results.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cam
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Brett I. Holcomb 
> <biholcomb at l1049h.com <mailto:biholcomb at l1049h.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 06/15/2016 01:41 PM, Cam Mac wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I haven't had any luck using the oVirt GUI or virt-v2v (see
>>     earlier email), and I need to find a way to migrate quite a few
>>     Windows hosts (Windows 7, 2012, 2008, 2k3 etc) into my test oVirt
>>     cluster as a PoC so I can make a compelling case for getting rid
>>     of VMware. Using OVF files looks like a lot more manual work as
>>     compared to the GUI or virt-v2v, with their nice conversion features.
>>
>>     Any suggestions?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>
>>     Cam
>>
>>
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>     Are you getting errors?
>
>     Here's what I have in my notes but you may already have tried it
>     and the GUI doesn't seem to have a way to do it. I migrated from
>     both ESXi6 and VMwareWorkstation 11. First I exported as ova.
>
>     **  Make sure the export directory is mounted.
>     *  virt-v2v doesn't like being run as root so run it as vdsm user
>     and you need to specify the shell.
>
>       su - vdsm -s /bin/bash
>
>     For Export storage located on another computer remote to the one
>     running virt-v2v use the host:/export format
>
>       virt-v2v -i ova -of raw -o rhev -os
>     ovhost1:/srv/exports/ovirt/export1 --network VLAN100 -oa sparse
>     -on <vm name> <input file name>
>
>     For Export storage located on a server that is doing exporting use
>     this format with local directory path for -os
>
>       virt-v2v -i ova -of raw -o rhev -os /srv/exports/ovirt/export1
>     -oa sparse --network VLAN100 -on <vm name>  /path/<input file name>
>
>     I moved my ova files to my host (I run hosted engine deployment). 
>     Then I su'd and ran the second command since my host exports the
>     oVirt Export directory.
>
>     Once the command completes I run the oVirt admin import and select
>     the VMs from the list and move them over.  I have to change the
>     location of the storage since it defaults to the Engine storage
>     and not my iSCSI storage.
>
>     I've done it on mainly Linux and a Win 7 VM and it worked.  I
>     haven't tried any servers yet.
>
>
>
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