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new 8b19b59a added steps to install ovftool and virt-win on debian (#483)
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commit 8b19b59a648bd6c25f1ad983f3ccd6f4f345e17e
Author: kiranchavala <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Aug 28 15:13:14 2025 +0530
added steps to install ovftool and virt-win on debian (#483)
---
.../importing_vmware_vms_into_kvm.rst | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git
a/source/adminguide/virtual_machines/importing_vmware_vms_into_kvm.rst
b/source/adminguide/virtual_machines/importing_vmware_vms_into_kvm.rst
index c8d6b182..84848fed 100644
--- a/source/adminguide/virtual_machines/importing_vmware_vms_into_kvm.rst
+++ b/source/adminguide/virtual_machines/importing_vmware_vms_into_kvm.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@ The virt-v2v output (progress) is logged in the CloudStack
agent logs, to help a
::
- virtv2v.verbose.enabled=true
+ dnf install virt-v2v
+
+ echo "virtv2v.verbose.enabled=true" >>
/etc/cloudstack/agent/agent.properties
+
+ systemctl restart cloudstack-agent
Installing virt-v2v on Ubuntu KVM hosts does not install nbdkit which is
required in the conversion of VMware VCenter guests. To install it, please
execute:
@@ -62,12 +66,57 @@ You can also install the RPM manually from
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/
For Debian-based distributions:
+Ubuntu don’t seem to ship the virtio-win package with drivers, which causes
virt-v2v not to convert the VMWare Windows guests to virtio profiles. This
could result in slow IDE drives and Intel E1000 NICs. As a workaround, we can
follow the below steps to install the package from the RPM on all KVM hosts
running the virt-v2v:
+
::
apt install virtio-win (if the package is not available, then manual
steps will be required to install the virtio drivers for windows)
+
+ wget
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.noarch.rpm
+
+ # install “alien” which can convert rpms to debs
+ apt -y install alien
+
+ # the conversion, can take a while
+ alien -d virtio-win.noarch.rpm
+
+ # install the resulting deb
+ dpkg -i virtio-win*.deb
+
+In addition to this, we need to install the below package as well to avoid the
error “virt-v2v: error: One of rhsrvany.exe or pvvxsvc.exe is missing in
/usr/share/virt-tools“.
+
+ ::
+
+ wget -nd -O srvany.rpm
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/mingw-srvany/1.1/4.fc38/noarch/mingw32-srvany-1.1-4.fc38.noarch.rpm
+
+ alien -d srvany.rpm
+
+ dpkg -i *srvany*.deb
+
The OVF tool (ovftool) must be installed on the destination KVM hosts if the
hosts should export VM files (OVF) from vCenter. If not, the management server
exports them (the management server doesn't require ovftool installed).
+Steps to install ovftool
+
+Download the ovftool from
https://developer.broadcom.com/tools/open-virtualization-format-ovf-tool/latest
+
+ ::
+
+ unzip VMware-ovftool-4.6.3-24031167-lin.x86_64.zip -d /usr/local/
+
+ #create a soft link
+
+ ln -s /usr/local/ovftool/ovftool /usr/local/bin/ovftool
+
+If you are hitting the following error when running ovftool, install the
dependecy
+
+./ovftool.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
+
+ ::
+
+ dnf install libnsl
+
+
Usage
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