Where is the virt-v2v utility on RHEL 7?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

Issue

This solution is deprecated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

  • Need to convert virtual machines running on foreign hypervisors to libvirt-managed KVM guests. On RHEL 6, the virt-v2v utility is there, but the same utility is not found on RHEL7.

  • How to get virt-v2v installed on RHEL 7

Resolution

  • Support for virt-v2v is scheduled for RHEL 7.2 GA release; currently RHEL 7.2 is in Beta stage, which is made available only for testing purposes.
  • In RHEL 7.1, virt-v2v is in Technical Preview.
  • Contact Red Hat Technical Support Services to know the current status.

Root Cause

  • virt-v2v heavily depends on libguestfs for all the background magic it does to convert a virtual machine.

  • libguestfs is not yet available on RHEL 7 GA and thus virt-v2v.

  • If running RHEL 7.1, you may be interested in trying out the newer RHEL 7.2 preview versions of:

    • libguestfs
    • virt-v2v (Technical Preview in RHEL 7.1, Supported in RHEL 7.2)
    • virt-p2v (Technical Preview in RHEL 7.2)

  • To install the preview repository, create the following yum repository file as libguestfs-RHEL-7.2-preview:

[libguestfs-RHEL-7.2-preview]
name=libguestfs RHEL 7.2 preview - x86_64
baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-7.2-preview/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
  • Then use this command to update virt-v2v:
# yum install virt-v2v libguestfs-tools-c libguestfs-xfs

  • To convert Windows guests, you'll also need the libguestfs-winsupport package, which is finally available in RHN (V2VWIN channel) or you can get it from:
    http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-winsupport/

  • Note: These packages are not supported by Red Hat. If any bugs are found, then please file them using this link.

  • To downgrade back to the RHEL 7.1 supported packages, delete
    /etc/yum.repos.d/libguestfs-RHEL-7.2-preview.repo ,
    uninstall libguestfs,
    then reinstall libguestfs from RHN.

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