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V2V Guide
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Importing Virtual Machines with virt-v2v
Dayle Parker
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Laura Novich
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Laura Bailey
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Tim Hildred
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David Jorm
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Abstract
This book is a guide to importing virtual machines from foreign hypervisors to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and KVM managed by libvirt.
Warning
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 version of the virt-v2v utility has been deprecated. Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 are advised to create a Red Hat Enterprise 7 virtual machine, and install virt-v2v in that virtual machine. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 version is fully supported and documented in virt-v2v Knowledgebase articles.