NAME

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

DESCRIPTION

       This page documents which foreign hypervisors, virtualization management systems and guest types that
       virt-v2v(1) can support.

       Note this page applies to upstream virt-v2v from http://libguestfs.org and in downstream distributions of
       virt-v2v sometimes features are intentionally removed, or are present but not supported.

   Hypervisors (Input)
       VMware ESXi
           Must be managed by VMware vCenter ≥ 5.0 unless VDDK is available.

       OVA exported from VMware
           OVAs from other hypervisors will not work.

       VMX from VMware
           VMX files generated by other hypervisors will not work.

       RHEL 5 Xen
       SUSE Xen
       Citrix Xen
           Citrix Xen has not been recently tested.

       Hyper-V
           Not recently tested.  Requires that you export the disk or use virt-p2v(1) on Hyper-V.

       Direct from disk images
           Only disk images exported from supported hypervisors, and using container formats supported by qemu.

       Physical machines
           Using the virt-p2v(1) tool.

   Hypervisors (Output)
       QEMU and KVM only.

   Virtualization management systems (Output)
       OpenStack
       Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.1 and up
       Local libvirt
           And hence virsh(1), virt-manager(1), and similar tools.

       Local disk

   Guests
       Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6, 7
       CentOS 4, 5, 6, 7
       Scientific Linux 4, 5, 6, 7
       Oracle Linux
       Fedora
       SLES 10 and up
       OpenSUSE 10 and up
       ALT Linux 9 and up
       Debian 6 and up
       Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, and up
       Windows XP to Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016
           We           use           Windows           internal          version          numbers,          see
           https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions

           Currently NT 5.2 to NT 6.3 are supported.

           See "WINDOWS" below for additional notes on converting Windows guests.

   Guest firmware
       BIOS is supported for all guest types and hypervisors.

       VMware allows you to present UEFI firmware to guests (instead of the ordinary  PC  BIOS).   Virt-v2v  can
       convert these guests, but requires that UEFI is supported by the target hypervisor.

       Currently KVM supports OVMF, an open source UEFI firmware, and can run these guests.

       Since  OVMF  support  was  only recently added to KVM (in 2014/2015), not all target environments support
       UEFI guests yet:

       UEFI on libvirt, qemu
           Supported.  Virt-v2v will generate the correct libvirt XML (metadata) automatically,  but  note  that
           the  same  version  of  OVMF  must  be installed on the conversion host as is installed on the target
           hypervisor, else you will have to adjust paths in the metadata.

       UEFI on OpenStack
           Supported since virt-v2v ≥ 1.43.2.

       UEFI on oVirt or RHV
           Supported since oVirt/RHV ≥ 4.2 and virt-v2v ≥ 1.39.12.

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHOR

       Richard W.M. Jones

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Red Hat Inc.

LICENSE

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  it  under  the  terms  of  the  GNU
       General  Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
       (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even
       the  implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public
       License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not,  write
       to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

BUGS

       To      get      a      list      of      bugs      against      libguestfs,      use      this     link:
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

       To      report      a      new       bug       against       libguestfs,       use       this       link:
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

       When reporting a bug, please supply:

       •   The version of libguestfs.

       •   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)

       •   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.

       •   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output into the bug report.

virt-v2v-2.4.0                                     2024-04-01                                virt-v2v-support(1)