On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:31:57AM +0800, yugang at bjtengling.com wrote:> Hi there, > Is there possiable that virt-p2v can convert Physical computer online? Which > means do not reboot or start it through U disk. > Do we have plan on this, is there any other tool can do this?This isn't possible with virt-p2v and cannot be done in general (because the hardware and virtual devices change underneath the kernel). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
(because the hardware and virtual devices change underneath the kernel). Is this quite normal? Which means Microsoft's VSS is a castle on the sand beach? yugang at bjtengling.com From: Richard W.M. Jones Date: 2021-08-26 18:09 To: yugang at bjtengling.com CC: libguestfs Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] online-p2v On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:31:57AM +0800, yugang at bjtengling.com wrote:> Hi there, > Is there possiable that virt-p2v can convert Physical computer online? Which > means do not reboot or start it through U disk. > Do we have plan on this, is there any other tool can do this?This isn't possible with virt-p2v and cannot be done in general (because the hardware and virtual devices change underneath the kernel). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/attachments/20210826/46dbe47d/attachment.htm>