1virt-v2v-support(1)         Virtualization Support         virt-v2v-support(1)
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NAME

6       virt-v2v-support - Supported hypervisors, virtualization management
7       systems and guests in virt-v2v
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DESCRIPTION

10       This page documents which foreign hypervisors, virtualization
11       management systems and guest types that virt-v2v(1) can support.
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13       Note this page applies to upstream virt-v2v from http://libguestfs.org
14       and in downstream distributions of virt-v2v sometimes features are
15       intentionally removed, or are present but not supported.
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17   Hypervisors (Input)
18       VMware ESXi
19           Must be managed by VMware vCenter ≥ 5.0 unless VDDK is available.
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21       OVA exported from VMware
22           OVAs from other hypervisors will not work.
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24       VMX from VMware
25           VMX files generated by other hypervisors will not work.
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27       RHEL 5 Xen
28       SUSE Xen
29       Citrix Xen
30           Citrix Xen has not been recently tested.
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32       Hyper-V
33           Not recently tested.  Requires that you export the disk or use
34           virt-p2v(1) on Hyper-V.
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36       Direct from disk images
37           Only disk images exported from supported hypervisors, and using
38           container formats supported by qemu.
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40       Physical machines
41           Using the virt-p2v(1) tool.
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43   Hypervisors (Output)
44       QEMU and KVM only.
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46   Virtualization management systems (Output)
47       OpenStack
48       Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.1 and up
49       Local libvirt
50           And hence virsh(1), virt-manager(1), and similar tools.
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52       Local disk
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54   Guests
55       Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6, 7
56       CentOS 4, 5, 6, 7
57       Scientific Linux 4, 5, 6, 7
58       Oracle Linux
59       Fedora
60       SLES 10 and up
61       OpenSUSE 10 and up
62       ALT Linux 9 and up
63       Debian 6 and up
64       Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, and up
65       Windows XP to Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016
66           We use Windows internal version numbers, see
67           https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions
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69           Currently NT 5.2 to NT 6.3 are supported.
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71           See "WINDOWS" below for additional notes on converting Windows
72           guests.
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74   Guest firmware
75       BIOS is supported for all guest types and hypervisors.
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77       VMware allows you to present UEFI firmware to guests (instead of the
78       ordinary PC BIOS).  Virt-v2v can convert these guests, but requires
79       that UEFI is supported by the target hypervisor.
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81       Currently KVM supports OVMF, an open source UEFI firmware, and can run
82       these guests.
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84       Since OVMF support was only recently added to KVM (in 2014/2015), not
85       all target environments support UEFI guests yet:
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87       UEFI on libvirt, qemu
88           Supported.  Virt-v2v will generate the correct libvirt XML
89           (metadata) automatically, but note that the same version of OVMF
90           must be installed on the conversion host as is installed on the
91           target hypervisor, else you will have to adjust paths in the
92           metadata.
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94       UEFI on OpenStack
95           Supported since virt-v2v ≥ 1.43.2.
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97       UEFI on oVirt or RHV
98           Supported since oVirt/RHV ≥ 4.2 and virt-v2v ≥ 1.39.12.
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SEE ALSO

101       virt-v2v(1), http://libguestfs.org.
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AUTHOR

104       Richard W.M. Jones
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107       Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Red Hat Inc.
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LICENSE

110       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
111       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
112       Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
113       option) any later version.
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115       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
116       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
117       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
118       General Public License for more details.
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120       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
121       with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
122       51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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BUGS

125       To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
126       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
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128       To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
129       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
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131       When reporting a bug, please supply:
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133       •   The version of libguestfs.
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135       •   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from
136           source, etc)
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138       •   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
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140       •   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output
141           into the bug report.
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