[libvirt-users] Facing problems while connecting virsh to XenServer 6.5 to import VMs to RHEV / oVirt

Anantha Raghava raghav at exzatechconsulting.com
Thu Aug 18 04:17:05 UTC 2016


Hello Daniel,

Thanks for your response.

Any roadmap to include the drivers for XenServer in libvirt?

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Thanks & Regards,

Anantha Raghava



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On Wednesday 17 August 2016 05:12 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 09:50:58PM +0530, Anantha Raghava wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to import couple of important Virtual Machines from XenServer
>> 6.5 (from downloaded from xenserver.org) into RHEV / oVirt environment. When
>> I used the RHEV / oVirt Import Wizard, I was facing the issues. In order to
>> check further, I attempted to use virsh -c ssh://root@<xenhost> command to
>> connect and check but received the same set of errors as in RHEV / oVirt
>> Wizard.
> You're virsh URI doesn't specify what driver to connect to - just using
> 'ssh' on its own is not valid.
>
> In any case, we do not have any driver for libvirt that works with
> XenServer, so trying virsh is pointless. Whatever RHEV is doing
> with XenServer, it doesn't involve libvirt
>
>> I am able to connect to xen server 6.5 using ssh command without password
>> and even "sudo -u vdsm ssh root@<xenhost>" also works without any issues. To
>> dig further I, on xen server, disabled the firewall and set SELinux to
>> disabled and I am finding that libvirt is unable to connect to hypervisor.
>>
>> I have attached the libvirt client logs for your reference.
>>
>> Can someone help me to debug this and import the VMs from Xen Server 6.5 to
>> RHEV / oVirt? We cannot recreate these Virtual Machines as these are
>> critical ones and rebuilding will be a herculean task.
> You should take this to the ovirt mailing lists, or contact customer
> support assuming you have a RHEV support  subscription.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel

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