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Hi Red Hat team, 

 

Do we have any Physical to virtual solution to migrate custoemr environment from Physical to RHEV virtual machines. One of our customer is looking for physical to virtual migration for his MS Windows environment.

 

Do we have any utility for Microsoft Windows environment to be converted into RHEV virtual machine?

 

Cheers,

Ashish

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Sadique Puthen's picture Red Hat Guru 4649 points
28 December 2011 2:18 PM

As of now there is no supported solution that comes from Red Hat to convert physical machines to virtual machines to run on RHEV.

 

There is virt-p2v under development. You an give it a try. See details at http://www.libguestfs.org/virt-v2v/

 

You can take a look at Acronis. See some details at https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-50007

 

Chris Negus's picture Red Hat Guru 1925 points
12 October 2012 7:31 PM

This has changed. There is now a solution supported by Red Hat. See this document (described in a later comment): https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/230143

di Active Contributor 280 points
8 January 2012 1:53 PM

tahnks for sharing the details.

 

I have tried creating the p2v.iso with the help of 

 

virt-p2v-image-builder -a http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/14/x86_64/
virt-p2v-image-builder -a http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/14/x86_64/
 
I am able to create the iso with the same however once I boot any machine through that media, I get the below mentioned error:
 
virt-p2v has shutdown unexpectedly. You may:
* try running it again
* debug virt-p2v
* power the machine off
 
Kindly suggest how to work around with this issue.
 
MB Red Hat Active Contributor 141 points
9 January 2012 10:27 AM

It looks like you're trying to do this on Fedora 14. Could you please try again using Fedora 16? Everything required is now in stable, so once you've installed virt-p2v-image-builder you just need to run it with no additional arguments. This will give you the latest version of the P2V client, which includes many bugfixes.

di Active Contributor 280 points
10 January 2012 6:14 AM

Thanks Mathew.

 

I am able to create the p2v.iso which is of 103 MB size with the command  virt-p2v-image-builder without any other additional arguments.

 

Now, when I try to boot the machine with that ISO, the 1st screen is for "connect to conversion server"

where the username "root" is grayed out which means I can't change the username parameter.

 

So my only question is that can we use the this P2V media for Windows Physical machine conversion or it is only P2V for Linux machines as it is using the username as root only?

 

Kindly suggest. 

 

JA Active Contributor 135 points
10 February 2012 7:44 PM

Hi,

 

Acronis has P2V and V2V migration tools certified for RHEV 3.0.  You can download a trial version from http://marketplace.redhat.com/rhev.  The trial version gives you 3 free migration of production Windows or Linux workloads (either physical or virtual) to RHEV 3.0.

 

There's also a 5 minute tutorial video on How to Migrate to RHEV:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHqTFnH-Nao

Chris Negus's picture Red Hat Guru 1925 points
12 October 2012 7:27 PM

We have just published a reference architecture called "2012 - Migrating Physical Servers to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0." It should answer your questions about how to convert both RHEL and Windows systems installed on physical hardware into virtual machines that can run on RHEV:

 

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/230143

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