Re: [Libguestfs] virt-p2v not recognising Hard Disks of Server
On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 11:42:20AM +0530, Anantha Raghava wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to convert a physical server (10 year old hardware with
PCI LSI Loging / Symbios LSI MegaRAID controller and SCSI drives,
RAID 5 Configuration) into a Virtual Machine in oVirt (oVirt Version
4.1.8). Host to be converted has Fedora 5 OS.
I have downloaded the virt-p2v.iso (Cent OS 7.3). I have prepared
the conversion server, set it up as a VM in oVirt environment. I am
able to boot the physical server with virt-p2v.iso. I am able to
connect to conversion server. But none of the Hard Disks are listed
to select for conversion.
I opine, probably it is something to do with SCSI / RAID Card drivers.
Is there a way I can get these drivers into virt-p2v.iso? Or do we
get an old virt-p2v.iso that can recognise the hard disks of this 10
year old server? Any suggestions to get this task to completion?
Yes, we had the same problem converting a similar machine:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414505
To cut a long story short I made live CDs based on RHEL 5 and
RHEL 6, and hopefully one of those should recognize the disks
of the server:
http://oirase.annexia.org/virt-p2v/RHEL-7.3/
These will interoperate with the normal virt-v2v on the conversion
server, so you don't need to change the virt-v2v side.
Rich.
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virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v