I'll bet those VM definitions are the VMWare .vmx files that describe the virtual machines. I've been down this road a bunch over the past several months. When you use virt-v2v, it reads all the virtual machine attributes from the VMWare side and then creates a new VM with the same attributes on the KVM side. All of my experience has been with ESX/ESXi on the source end - I haven't tried anything using VMWare server as a source.
It gets a little trickier if your source VMs have any snapshots. - Greg -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard W.M. Jones Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 2:45 AM To: Gene Poole Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] Want To Migrate Off Of VMware Server to ??? On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 01:20:02PM -0500, Gene Poole wrote: > I've got VMware Server 2.0.2 running on a CentOS 5 system (other things > are running on the CentOS besides the VMware). I've got a new system and > want to migrate off of the VMware, but to what? Obviously I'm going to say KVM ... If you want the newest features, then Fedora 16. If you want something stable but slower moving, then RHEL 6. > Questions: > Is there a 'How To' out there that tells about this 'migration' (tried > Google)? > What about a KVM tutorial? The Red Hat Virtualization Guides might be a good place to start: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/index.html http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Virtualization_Getting_Started_Guide/index.html http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/V2V_Guide/index.html (PDFs are also available -- you have to click the small down-pointing arrow next to each guide) These guides apply directly to RHEL 6, but most of the information is applicable to Fedora as well. You can also look at the libvirt documentation on http://libvirt.org/ > Can I use the existing VMware Server VM definitions on another machine? You might want to look at virt-v2v for converting your guests to KVM: http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v/ If by "VM definitions" you mean some sort of templates, then I'm not sure. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
