[ovirt-users] migrating VMS from old hosted engine to new hosted engine

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:13 AM, Paul Groeneweg | Pazion <paul at pazion.nl>
wrote:

> We are moving our VMs from an old 3.6 oVirt platform to a new oVirt 4.1
> platform.
>
> I am looking for an easy way to migrate the VMs. ( I know about export
> domain, but this takes 2 times a copy action ) I tested and just detaching
> the Data domain and attaching it, didn't work.
>
>
It should work, and is the easiest way by far. Can you share more details
on what did not work for you?
Y.


> Then I found the VM import option:
>  - Adding a ssh key gen and setting password on virsh
> - load a list of machines in the webinterface from VM import
> - when I start an import the system complains:
> The following VMs retrieved from external server
> qemu+ssh://root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/system are not in down status: VM
> [VM-NAME].
> - I tried to suspend the VM, but this didn;t work either ( same error )
> - Problem is ,when VM is shutdown, it disappears from this system list.
>
> Is there a way to directly import a VM from old oVirt platform to the new
> platform
>
> Looking forward to find a solution to quickly migrate our VMs.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Paul Groeneweg
>
>
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