Anand, take look this document carefully, your question will be solved. http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/V2V_Guide/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anand Nande" <anande@xxxxxxxxxx> To: virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: rhev-tech@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 4:15:14 PM 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. 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
