Attach External Hard Drive or External Storage
For the purposes of this task you will want to attach some sort of removable storage. An easy way to determine what the device the storage shows as run the following before attaching the storage:
blkid |
make note of the last /dev/sd# device you see. Now plugin your external storage and run the same command, you should see a new entry there that should be your path you will want to use in the next step (ex: /dev/sdd1)
Next we will mount the external storage to /mnt
mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt |
List the LV Info
On the KVM host you wish to copy the VM from list the lv information
lvdisplay |
You should see a path like /dev/KVM/vmname.
Convert Raw LVM to VHD
Using the qemu-img utility you will need to run the following:
qemu-img convert -O vpc /dev/vg_name/lv_name /mnt/vmname |
You can also convert to other formats as listed belelow:
Disk Format
|
QEMU -O Argument
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Disk Format
|
QEMU -O Argument
|
qcow2 (Xen/KVM) | qcow2 |
QED (KVM) | qed |
raw | raw |
VDI (vbox) | vdi |
VHD (Hyper-V/Citrix Xen) | vpc |
VMDK (VMWare/eSXI) | vmdk |
Once the disk is converted and on your external storage you will want to exit the /mnt directory and unmount
cd / umount /mnt |
Import to Citrix XenServer
Attach the external drive and mount it similarly to how you did in step 1, however you will need to check and see what device this shows up as, it will likely be /dev/sdb1. Mount this to the /mnt location.
Next we will need to identify the UUID of the storage repository in Xen we are going to use by UUID:
xe sr-list |
Using the UUID from above create a global variable using the following:
RESTORE=$(xe vdi-create sr-uuid=<UUID of SR from above> name-label=<vmname> virtual-size=<size of drive + 1 gb>GiB) |
This will create an object named restore in your storage repository. Next we will want to import the VHD
xe vdi- import filename=/mnt/<vmanme> format=vhd --progress uuid=$RESTORE |
Once the import completes you will want to create a new VM in Xen but not start it. After the VM creates you will want to remove the delete the hard drive associated with the VM on the storage tab. Once you do this click “attach disk” and select the disk you imported. Once this is attached you can start the VM and you should be good to go. Note on Windows systems and some linux systems you may need to update the network settings. Once this is done install Guest Tools, reboot and you’re all set.