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On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 3:56 PM Martin Kletzander <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 09:13:37PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 7:38 PM Kaushal Shriyan <[email protected] > > > >wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 12:28 AM Kaushal Shriyan < > [email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 9:39 PM Kaushal Shriyan < > [email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM in kvmguestosimage.ova or > >>>> kvmguestosimage.vmdk format as I am trying to restore it in AWS by > >>>> referring to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/ article as per the > >>>> below supported file format. > >>>> > >>>> [1] Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) > >>>> [2] Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) > >>>> [3] Virtual Hard Disk (VHD/VHDX) > >>>> [4] raw > >>>> > > Well, raw image is the most versatile, but the other formats (especially > 1 and 2) might have also other metadata like the number of cpus, memory > size, devices etc. > > >>>> Also any method to take full and incremental backup of KVM Guest VM. > >>>> > > I am not experienced with backups, but my guess is you can either create > your own workflow using various blockjobs or you might want to check out > backup-* and checkpoint-* commands. > > >>>> Any help will be highly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from > you. > >>>> Thanks in Advance. > >>>> > >>>> Best Regards, > >>>> > >>>> Kaushal > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Checking in again if someone can pitch in for my earlier post to this > >>> mailing list. Thanks in advance. > >>> > >>> Best Regards, > >>> > >>> Kaushal > >>> > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I followed the below steps by referring to > >> > https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmimport-image-import.html > >> . > >> > >> # qemu-img -h | grep Supported > >> Supported formats: blkdebug blklogwrites blkverify compress > >> copy-before-write copy-on-read file ftp ftps gluster host_cdrom > host_device > >> http https iscsi iser luks nbd null-aio null-co nvme preallocate qcow2 > >> quorum raw rbd ssh throttle vhdx vmdk vpc > >> > > This might be a bit misleading since VMDK may meat a lot of things, it's > not one format, it can store different things, and the support may mean > different things. > > >> # qemu-img --version > >> qemu-img version 6.2.0 (qemu-kvm-6.2.0-12.module_el8.7.0+1140+ff0772f9) > >> Copyright (c) 2003-2021 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers > >> # > >> > >> *Step No. 1* > >> #qemu-img convert -O vmdk openapibox.img openapibox.vmdk -p > >> > > I see you are also just using QEMU, is this anyway libvirt-related or > are you just using qemu command line? > > Since you are not adding any metadata, then why not just use the raw > image since I presume openapibox.img is in raw and not qcow format. If > it is qcow, then you can convert it to raw and use that. The > disadvantage of the raw format is also the fact that most tools will not > keep the sparseness, so you might end up with a high storage usage. > Maybe you can try vhdx instead since that *should* just be a disk image. > Thanks Martin and appreciate it. I will try it out and keep you posted. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Kausha
