Check out the links below, they can help guide you through the conversion of Xen to KVM. It's my understanding that when converting Xen to KVM, it can't be done as a live migration.
http://ettore.trevisiol.net/files/xentokvm.pdf
The virt-v2v tool might also prove useful: http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v/
does virt-v2v also restores the memory and cpu state ?
what i did is , i created a virtual machine on xen using virt-manager, installed ubuntu 12.04 on it then installed grub on it,installed some packages and created some dummy files, and then turned off the virtual machine, then using NFS i shared the .img i.e the storage with another machine with kvm installed on it, then deployed a virtual machine with same configurations on the kvm machine and just used the shared .img file as storage while creating the VM and it worked !!!! .
Note: when i started the virtual machine for the first time using virt-manager on KVM machine , it promted to try ubuntu or install it, but when i rebooted it, it booted the OS with previously installed settings (i.e along with the user accounts, packages and dummy files that i created when the VM ran on Xen)
so what is the need of using tools like virt-v2v for conversion if we can directly use the storage ?
Asked: 2013-11-21 08:44:40 -0500
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Last updated: Mar 12 '14
