Converting standalone KVM guests to an oVirt Virtualization platform and the OpenStack cloud

In order to convert guests from a standalone KVM system to oVirt, perform the following steps:

  1. Create an NFS export domain. Attach this to the oVirt data center. Make sure that the host acting as virt-v2v conversion server has access it.
  2. Shut down the virtual machine. Make sure that SSH is enabled on the host.
  3. Convert the virtual machine using the following command:
    #virt-v2v -icqemu+ssh://root@kvmhost.example.com/system -o rhev -osstorage.example.com:/exportdomain --network ovirtguest_name

    Note

    kvmhost.example.com/system: This is the KVM host from where the virtual machine needs to be migrated.

  4. Import the virtual machine from the export storage domain into ...

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