Migration of virtual machines

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Migration of virtual machines

Are there tools for migrating from one virtual machine type to another? E.g let's say I have some Xen virtual machine and like to make it run under KVM. I know that qeumu has tools which can be used to "migrate" such machines, but how about:

Xen -> Kvm
Kvm -> Xen
Xen -> VMware (server?)

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The format you're looking for is OVF (Open Virtualization Format). It looks like its support in KVM is controversial, but otherwise I think it's been received pretty positively. (Disclaimer: I work for VMware, one of the co-creators of OVF)

Rob Heiser 2010-03-25 05:47:29

Does that mean I can take e.g my XEn vm and make it into some vmware System?

Friedrich 2010-03-25 12:23:02

Conceptually, that's the idea. I haven't worked with OVF and Xen's VMs. A quick search shows a "Project Kensho" at Citrix that works with OVF. VMware has support for it in a number of places, from a command line utility called "ovftool" to direct support in Virtual Center.

Rob Heiser 2010-03-25 15:27:32