3.3.2.6. Converting a VMware ESX Virtual Machine
When converting a Windows virtual machine from VMware ESX, ensure that VMware Tools is not installed on the virtual machine. The VMware Tools must be uninstalled prior to the conversion process. If a virtual machine is converted with the VMware Tools installed, it will not function correctly.
Ensure that the virtual machine is stopped prior to running the v2v process.
To convert the virtual machine, run:
virt-v2v -ic esx://esx.example.com/ -o rhev -os storage.example.com:/exportdomain --network rhevm vm-name
Where storage.example.com:/exportdomain
is the export storage domain, rhevm
is the locally managed network to connect the converted virtual machine's network to, and vm-name
is the name of the virtual machine. You may also use the --bridge
parameter to connect to a local network bridge, or specify multiple mappings in /etc/virt-v2v.conf
.