M R, Chengappa (NFV BU)
2015-Oct-08 12:17 UTC
[Libguestfs] fetching virt-p2v GUI on fedora 21
We need one simple deployment of converting a given server with some OS converted to a Virtual Machine. i.e. -> to have a simple Linux/fedora machine and install apache or any web server for testing or any application for that matter - the purpose here is to see if this application works after the conversion to a virtual machine -> Convert P2V using the tools. -> Start virtual machine and see if works. We have our conversion server in place, but we would like to know how could we initiate virt-p2v GUI from my physical server, we have difficulties understanding this -> When you start virt-p2v, you'll see a graphical configuration dialog that walks you through connection to the conversion server, asks for the password, which local hard disks you want to convert, and other things like the name of the guest to create and the number of virtual CPUs to give it. How do we start virt-p2v on a fedora 21 Further, we see this: [root@localhost ~]# yum install virt-p2v Loaded plugins: langpacks updates/21/x86_64/metalink | 14 kB 00:00:00 updates | 4.7 kB 00:00:00 No package virt-p2v available. Error: Nothing to do [root@localhost ~]# virt-p2v --help bash: virt-p2v: command not found... Could you please help us with the steps in getting up the GUI Sorry if this is very basic and if it seems to be a stupid question, apologize upfront as we are taking a stab @ it for the first time... Awaiting for response patiently.... Thanks & Regards, Chengappa
Richard W.M. Jones
2015-Oct-08 14:47 UTC
Re: [Libguestfs] fetching virt-p2v GUI on fedora 21
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 12:17:09PM +0000, M R, Chengappa (NFV BU) wrote:> We have our conversion server in place, but we would like to know > how could we initiate virt-p2v GUI from my physical server, we have > difficulties understanding this -> When you start virt-p2v, you'll > see a graphical configuration dialog that walks you through > connection to the conversion server, asks for the password, which > local hard disks you want to convert, and other things like the name > of the guest to create and the number of virtual CPUs to give it. > > How do we start virt-p2v on a fedora 21What you need to do is to make or download a virt-p2v ISO, and boot the physical machine using that. You can make the ISO by following the instructions here: http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v-make-disk.1.html http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v-make-kickstart.1.html but you may find it easier to download one that we provide: http://oirase.annexia.org/virt-p2v/Fedora-22/ or http://oirase.annexia.org/virt-p2v/RHEL-7.2-preview/ You cannot run the virt-p2v program directly on the source physical machine. It has to be booted off the ISO. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
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