[virt-tools-list] Using virt-p2v to convert a physical machine( only 80GB) takes a long long long time...

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:07:06AM +0800, Hui-Shan Chen wrote:
> hello all
> 
> Everytime I use virt-p2v-0.8.6-5.20120502.1.el6.centos.iso to convert a physical machine, it always takes many hours to finish. 
> 
> This is the profile of my virt-v2v.conf on the P2V server
> 
> <profile name="test">
>   <method>libvirt</method>
>   <storage format='qcow2' allocation='sparse'>default</storage>
> </profile>
> 
> What parameters did I miss to add?
> Or, How can I improve the convert rate?

How fast is the network connection between the physical machine
and the virt-v2v conversion server?

Rich.

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