Chapter 14. V2V and P2V Migration Tools
V2V is a process in which you move VMs that are virtualized on one vendor's virtualization platform to another, whereas P2V involves moving all the data from a physical system to a virtualized infrastructure in order to gain all the flexibility and cost-saving benefits of virtualization. In this chapter, you will learn how to migrate virtual machines running on foreign hypervisors to a KVM hypervisor using a virt-v2v tool. You will also learn how to migrate physical machines to virtual machines and then run them on the cloud.
Introducing the virt-v2v utility
virt-v2v is a special command-line utility, using which we can convert VMs from a foreign hypervisor to run on a KVM hypervisor managed by libvirt, OpenStack, ...
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