[ovirt-users] Migrate VirtualBox Vm into

[Gajendra Ravichandran]

Hi,


I am running a ovirt engine and ovirt host on a single machine for testing purpose. I trying to convert and move Debian virtualbox vm which is created using vagrant into ovirt engine as template.


I tried to convert using virt-v2v as http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html. However, I get error as (Debian/ Linux cannot be converted).


I have exported the vm from virtualbox and have the image as .ova. Is there any way to migrate?


Thanks

[Uwe Laverenz]

Hi,

Post by Gajendra Ravichandran
I tried to convert using virt-v2v
as http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html. However, I get error as
(Debian/ Linux cannot be converted).

Yes, virt-v2v only supports a limited number of operating systems,
Debian is just not supported.

Post by Gajendra Ravichandran
I have exported the vm from virtualbox and have the image as .ova. Is
there any way to migrate?

The only way I know of is to convert/migrate the harddisk of your guest
machine and attach it to a newly created VM.

The necessary tools are "VBoxManage clonemedium ..." and qemu-img(1) for
example.

cu,
Uwe

[Michal Skrivanek]

Hi,

Post by Gajendra Ravichandran
I tried to convert using virt-v2v
as http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html. However, I get error as
(Debian/ Linux cannot be converted).

Yes, virt-v2v only supports a limited number of operating systems, Debian is just not supported.

It is, now.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362497#c1
not in el7 yet, so you need to get it from libguestfs.org

Thanks,
michal

Post by Gajendra Ravichandran
I have exported the vm from virtualbox and have the image as .ova. Is
there any way to migrate?

The only way I know of is to convert/migrate the harddisk of your guest machine and attach it to a newly created VM.
The necessary tools are "VBoxManage clonemedium ..." and qemu-img(1) for example.
cu,
Uwe
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[Staniforth, Paul]

Hi Gajendra,

virt-v2v didn't support Debian/Ubuntu guests, it is apparently in a later version that is due to be included in RHEL/Centos 7.4


What I did to get a Metasploitable2 image into oVirt was.




1. convert vmdk disk

qemu-img convert -f vmdk Metasploitable.vmdk -O raw Metasploitable.img

2. Find size of disk 8GB in this case

qemu-img info Metasploitable.img

3. Create VM O/S Linux with disk of that size and of interface type IDE thin provision

4. In engine in the DATA_DOMAIN record the id of the disk just created

5. in the DATA_DOMAIN on one the hosts/nodes go to the images directory
e.g. mount_point/UUID/images

6. cd to directory of the id of the disk recorded at step 5 (also probably last directory created)
there should be 3 files and the one without an extension should be 8GB
they should all start with the same UUID in this case 1805e3a4-0697-4c0a-8dfb-0c0011490bd2

7. dd if=/path/Metasploitable.img of=1805e3a4-0697-4c0a-8dfb-0c0011490bd2 bs=4M

8. Boot VM.

It may be easier converting the disk and creating a new VM with it or seeing if Fedora has a more modern virt-v2v

Regards,
Paul S.


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Subject: [ovirt-users] Migrate VirtualBox Vm into


Hi,


I am running a ovirt engine and ovirt host on a single machine for testing purpose. I trying to convert and move Debian virtualbox vm which is created using vagrant into ovirt engine as template.


I tried to convert using virt-v2v as http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html. However, I get error as (Debian/ Linux cannot be converted).


I have exported the vm from virtualbox and have the image as .ova. Is there any way to migrate?


Thanks

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