exportdomain v2v to libvirt
Hi,
In an earlier discussion, I received help to move a kvm guest from libvirt to an exportdomain. I then imported the guest to RHEV and have it running on a RHEV-M host.
Now, I am looking for a way to bring that RHEV VM back out to libvirt. I can get the guest to the exportdomain, but I don't see that virt-v2v has an input method of rhev. There is an output method for libvirt and rhev, which should work fine.
The reason for doing this: I would like to make an image copy of the production VM, and send it to a Disaster Recovery site, or to a test host for developers.
Thanks
Responses
Hi Paul,
Right now, virt-v2v can only import into RHEV, not the other way around. This will be made possible with virt-p2v, that's planned to around RHEL 6.3 timeframe. Also, taking a VM off of an NFS based export storage domain is not too hard - just grab the right images, and attach them to a non-RHEV VM with the same operational parameters. Those can be simply glipsed in the RHEV GUI, or extracted from the ovf file. Not a supported or automated solution, but it will work for a one-off transition in case of dire need.
Hope this helps
Dan