Ubuntu Manpage: virt-v2v-support - Supported hypervisors, virtualization management systems and guests in

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NAME

       virt-v2v-support - Supported hypervisors, virtualization management systems and guests in
       virt-v2v

DESCRIPTION

This page documents which foreign hypervisors, virtualization management systems and guest
types that virt-v2v(1) can support.

Note this page applies to upstream virt-v2v from http://libguestfs.org and in downstream
distributions of virt-v2v sometimes features are intentionally removed, or are present but
not supported.

Hypervisors (Input)
VMware ESXi
Must be managed by VMware vCenter ≥ 5.0 unless VDDK is available.

OVA exported from VMware
OVAs from other hypervisors will not work.

VMX from VMware
VMX files generated by other hypervisors will not work.

RHEL 5 Xen
SUSE Xen
Citrix Xen
Citrix Xen has not been recently tested.

Hyper-V
Not recently tested. Requires that you export the disk or use virt-p2v(1) on Hyper-V.

Direct from disk images
Only disk images exported from supported hypervisors, and using container formats
supported by qemu.

Physical machines
Using the virt-p2v(1) tool.

Hypervisors (Output)
QEMU and KVM only.

Virtualization management systems (Output)
OpenStack
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.1 and up
Local libvirt
And hence virsh(1), virt-manager(1), and similar tools.

Local disk

Guests
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
CentOS 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Scientific Linux 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Oracle Linux
Fedora
SLES 10 and up
OpenSUSE 10 and up
Debian 6 and up
Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, and up
Windows XP to Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016
We use Windows internal version numbers, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions

Currently NT 5.2 to NT 6.3 are supported.

See "WINDOWS" below for additional notes on converting Windows guests.

Guest firmware
BIOS is supported for all guest types and hypervisors.

VMware allows you to present UEFI firmware to guests (instead of the ordinary PC BIOS).
Virt-v2v can convert these guests, but requires that UEFI is supported by the target
hypervisor.

Currently KVM supports OVMF, an open source UEFI firmware, and can run these guests.

Since OVMF support was only recently added to KVM (in 2014/2015), not all target
environments support UEFI guests yet:

UEFI on libvirt, qemu
Supported. Virt-v2v will generate the correct libvirt XML (metadata) automatically,
but note that the same version of OVMF must be installed on the conversion host as is
installed on the target hypervisor, else you will have to adjust paths in the
metadata.

UEFI on OpenStack
Not supported.

UEFI on oVirt or RHV
Supported since oVirt/RHV ≥ 4.2 and virt-v2v ≥ 1.39.12.

AUTHOR

       Richard W.M. Jones

COPYRIGHT

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LICENSE

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