Converting physical machines to KVM virtual machines using virt-p2v in RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 support the virt-p2v tool. Using virt-p2v, it is possible to convert a physical machine into a KVM virtual machine (VM) that can be managed for example by libvirt, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, or Red Hat Virtualization (RHV).

This article describes how to perform the conversi...

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