[Libguestfs] VM migration help required.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 11:05:40AM +0000, Roman Kagan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 11:27:50AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 12:27:54PM +0300, Arik Hadas wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:25 PM Nitin Rane <Nitin.Rane at techmahindra.com>
> > > > I am looking to migrate VMs from Openstack Juno to Openstack Newton and
> > 
> > As Arik says, you should _not_ use virt-v2v when moving from KVM to KVM.
> 
> I'm curious what's wrong with it?  I'd expect it to work just fine...

It makes a bunch of unnecessary changes to the guest configuration.

It's not forbidden, it's just not a good idea.

(This might not apply in your specific use case where you're trying to
install virtio drivers, I'm talking about general v2v users.)

Rich.

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