[virt-tools-list] virt-p2v (just out of curiosity)

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Nov 17 23:10:04 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:42:04PM -0500, Kenneth Armstrong wrote:
> I've been watching the progress of the virt-tools group for well over
> a year now, and I know that virt-p2v was pulled as it was being
> "slowly rewritten."  I was just curious, how far along is this
> project?  I know that libguestfs has been making awesome improvements,
> and I can see how that would help out with the virt-p2v project.  I
> know that us RHEV admins would like to see this tool come back out
> someday.

Matt is writing at the moment.  He's planning to do a talk about it
next May at the Summit (by which time, obviously, it'll be available).
The idea is to base it on the core virt-v2v engine, with a front-end
which you will run on the physical machine.

Rich.

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