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

[Trey Nolen]

I still have the ISO for the old one and it works fine for me on most
machines, but I hope the new one supports converting machines that are
using software RAID.


Trey Nolen

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 19:58 -0500, Kenneth Armstrong wrote:
> Will this be a live CD type of tool like the original was, or will
> this be a used on a live running system (like the VMWare P2V tool)?
> 
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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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