VMware guest conversion
Let's see how to move virtual machines from the VMware vSphere platform to a KVM hypervisor.
Converting a VMware vSphere guest to a standalone KVM host
To convert a virtual machine to a standalone KVM host, perform the following steps:
- Run the following command, using values from your system. In this example,
esxhost1.example.com
is the VMware vCenter server,VM001
is the name of the virtual machine, and/var/tmp
is the local repository to store the image:# virt-v2v -ic vpx://admin@esxhost1.example.com/Datacenter/esxi "vm001" -o local -os /var/tmp
- On running this command, virt-v2v will ask for the password for
admin@esx.example.com
. You can enter the password interactively or by using the--password-file
option.
Note
In non-production ...
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