How do you migrate a Windows VMWare VM to a VirtIO disk?
Is it possible install VirtIO drivers in a Windows Server 2012-R2 VMware VM, so that once it exported, converted and imported into OpenStack it can be booted with a VirtIO disk bus type?
The only method I have found so far;
- Boot the converted image in Libvirt as a IDE disk with a 2nd dummy VirtIO disk.
- Install the VirtIO drivers.
- Shutdown.
- Remove 2nd VirtIO disk and change boot disk to VirtIO bus.
- Boot and windows detects the VirtIO disk type.
- Import into OpenStack/Glance.
Is anyone aware of any better way of migrating a Windows Server from VMware to OpenStack, without having to go through the above.
I think this the menthod you had described is correct. But If you want to add VMware nodes and make the VMDK image to uploed on glance , i dont think you will need the full conversion.