Only able to get to this now, but need additional help, if at all possible.
See comments inline below. Thanks. 19.08.2017, 10:36, "Richard W.M. Jones" <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 08:38:31AM -0600, stef204 wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am new to v2v/libguestfs. > >> I need to convert a 30 GB virtual machine running Windows7 64 bit (a >> guest on a Linux system) from Virtualbox vdi format to qcow2 (or >> raw/img--another debate in itself) so I can use libvirt/qemu/kvm to >> run it and completely migrate away from Virtualbox. >> > > You will need the virtio drivers from: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers > You can either install that package so it appears under > /usr/share/virtio-win, or you can use the .iso file from that package > and set the VIRTIO_WIN environment variable to point to it: > > http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#environment-variables > The above is done (easy). > Do you have metadata from VirtualBox (number of CPUs, RAM, etc) in > some format? If not, then you should probably use the ‘-i libvirtxml’ > input method. You will have to write or modify the metadata, as > documented here: > > http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#minimal-xml-for--i-libvirtxml-option > Please bear with me but I really don't have enough info as to HOW to modify the xml template., beyond the obvious stuff, MAC address, name of VM, etc. Might there bit a more detailed xml template in context of Windows to kvm/qemu I could use? > I believe that virt-v2v should be able to transparently convert > the .vdi source file. You might or might not need to use the > ‘-if vdi‘ option. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
