On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 11:59:52AM +0000, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Hi Folks,
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> I'm about to migrate a VM from Xen, running on our own server, to a cloud
> service - probably Digital Ocean - running under K8.
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> I just discovered virt-v2v and libguestfs and these seem like good starting
> points. Any suggestions on good places to start, tutorials, other places to
> seek advice, any specific steps to take - would be very much appreciated.

There's not much to say except read & follow the instructions:
https://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html

Rich.

> Basic setup:
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>   • A legacy system that we're retiring (our own servers running in a
>     commercial data center)
>   • Xen 3.0
>   • Server and VM are running Linux 2.6.26-2-xen_686
>   • Root & swap are mounted on DRBD volumes (v 8.0.4)
>   • Yes - it's all ancient, and temporary while we update things.  First step
>     is to get off aging hardware & ridiculous charges for rack space.
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> Looking for a simple way to convert the DomU to something that will run on
> Digital Ocean or equivalent, and migrating the drbd volumes to Digital Ocean's
> (or equivalent) block storage service.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Miles Fidelman
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