[Libguestfs] P2Vs seem to require a very robust Ethernet
Matthew Booth
mbooth at redhat.com
Fri Dec 2 09:28:56 UTC 2011
On 12/02/2011 03:12 AM, Greg Scott wrote:
> Hey Matt -
>
> With a new release of virt-v2v a while away, what if we were to try a
> P2V by hand? I'm thinking of maybe provisioning a Windows RHEV VM,
> doing an ntbackup of the source physical machine and doing a bare metal
> restore on the VM. I've done it that way before with mixed results.
>
> We have that hack I put together to load the viostor block driver stuff
> on the source machine so the target VM will boot. Are there any HAL
> kinds of things or other hardware/firmware issues we need to also be
> thinking about?
Windows mostly fixes itself. If it boots and you don't see any missing
drivers in Device Manager, you're probably good to go.
Matt
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