Thanks Rich for the clarification and thanks Moran for getting me to the right human :-)
I'll be searching for the import feature tomorrow after I build out the main storage domain and the datacenter goes green. I REALLY appreciate all you guys do, and the help you provide. I've tried the -i libvirtxml method and it fails and I suspect it's because the legacy KVM environment is Ubuntu based. Any tricks or pointers would be appreciated. I typically scp the VM image file to the root of the export domain and use the -i <image> method because of the limitation of Ubuntu. Thank you again > On Feb 29, 2016, at 6:24 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 01:44:19PM +0200, Moran Goldboim wrote: >> +Richard, v2v maintainer. >> >>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Clint Boggio <cl...@theboggios.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm in the process of migrating a series of VM's from KVM environment, to >>> an OVirt environment. I've used virt-v2v to convert quite a few M$ and >>> Linux machines with great success. > > You don't really need to use virt-v2v when the guest already runs on > KVM. The latest oVirt supports direct import of disk images, and > there is also my import script for older versions of oVirt which > didn't have this feature: > > http://git.annexia.org/?p=import-to-ovirt.git;a=summary > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Nevertheless I'll answer the rest of these questions because it's an > interesting topic for people importing from other hypervisors ... > >>> Coming up I've got to convert a Linux VM that has 3 virtual disks. Inside >>> that VM, the three disks are part of an LVM volume. >>> >>> 1. How will virt-v2v handle these three virtual disks ? > > Should just work. > >>> 2. On which disk image will I run virt-v2v ? > > On all 3 :-) Are you using `-i disk' input mode? That only supports a > single disk, but you can use `-i libvirtxml' mode instead, and then > you can specify as many input disks as you want: > > http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#minimal-xml-for--i-libvirtxml-option > >>> 3. Will virt-v2v "follow" the three images and convert the machine or will >>> I have to somehow tell it to include all three disks ? > > You always have to tell virt-v2v. > >>> 4. Shall I have all three images together in the same directory when I run >>> the tool ? > > With `-i libvirtxml' it doesn't matter. You specify the XML file, and > that contains references to the disks. > >>> 5. Is this the appropriate forum for this question ? > > Yup. > > Rich. > >>> As of the writing of this question I'll be using OVirt 3.6 updated on a 4 >>> node cluster running CentOS 7 , and the most recent version of virt-v2v as >>> is available on Fedora 23. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users@ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many > powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
