----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anand Nande" <anande@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: rhev-tech@xxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, 19 December, 2011 10:15:14 AM > Subject: Interesting P2V conversion : But do we support this ? > > Hi, > > One of the customer follows the below mentioned [P2V] process to > convert a *Physical Windows Machine Server 2003* to a RHEV > *compatible* VM: > > He is using 'Acronis Virtual edition 11' to perform P2V backup > > As per their website: acronis can be used for : P2V, V2V, V2P > Customer did a P2V of this Windows server 2003 guest which now works > on 'VMware Workstation' successfully!! > > To make it work on RHEV, he does a : > > virt-v2v -f virt-v2v.conf -o rhev -osd zenoss:/RHEV/VMExport Win2003 > > which fails with the following error: virt-v2v: No root device found > in this operating system image. I think this is due to the fact that virt-v2v is designed to convert from ESX, not WS version of VMWare. These two are really different. > > After a bit of googling, Got weird answers (none in particular to > Linux(RHEL)) related to this error. > * This error was observed with v2v when there was a RAID setup > [windows+RAID]? > * This error was observed when v2v detected RAID entries in > /etc/fstab of the linux guests (windows partition table) ? > > > Currently I am referring to : > https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-50007 which seems like a good > option with KVM. > And I guess - this should work in RHEV as well having the backup > image exported to ISO-Domain and then performing a CD-ROM based > installation. > > Any help is a welcome. Cheers, > --Anand > -- Regards, Dan Yasny Red Hat Israel +972 9769 2280