[Libguestfs] Virtualbox vdi Input Format and man pages

[stef204]

Only able to get to this now, but need additional help, if at all possible.

See comments inline below.  Thanks.

19.08.2017, 10:36, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 08:38:31AM -0600, stef204 wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I am new to v2v/libguestfs.
>
>>  I need to convert a 30 GB virtual machine running Windows7 64 bit (a
>>  guest on a Linux system) from Virtualbox vdi format to qcow2 (or
>>  raw/img--another debate in itself) so I can use libvirt/qemu/kvm to
>>  run it and completely migrate away from Virtualbox.
>>

>
> You will need the virtio drivers from:
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers
> You can either install that package so it appears under
> /usr/share/virtio-win, or you can use the .iso file from that package
> and set the VIRTIO_WIN environment variable to point to it:
>
>   http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#environment-variables
>

The above is done (easy).

> Do you have metadata from VirtualBox (number of CPUs, RAM, etc) in
> some format? If not, then you should probably use the ‘-i libvirtxml’
> input method. You will have to write or modify the metadata, as
> documented here:
>
>   http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#minimal-xml-for--i-libvirtxml-option
>

Please bear with me but I really don't have enough info as to HOW to modify the xml template., beyond the obvious stuff, MAC address, name of VM, etc.

Might there bit a more detailed xml template in context of Windows to kvm/qemu I could use?

> I believe that virt-v2v should be able to transparently convert
> the .vdi source file. You might or might not need to use the
> ‘-if vdi‘ option.
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones