Migration of KVM VMs to Proxmox

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texmansru47

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Good Evening Everyone!

I have three VMs from my CENTOS 7 Server that was running KVM. I am rebuilding the server with Proxmox and want to restore these VMs. Everything I see for this process has to do with working with .ova files. I don't have that nor I am not sure how to make them if need be. What I do have is the following:

1) .XML file for each VM I have (created a XML file per instructions from KVM)
2).qcow2 file for each VM as well (the data)

I have found information about migrating the .qcow2 files but nothing for the .XML files... so is this possible? Do I need the .XML files? Do I need to capture both files into a .ova file?

Sorry new to this part of VM processing. I would love to for my existing VMs to be restored and running correctly on proxmox since I think this is a great product. Just need some insight ( or education) on the migration process.

Cheers in advance,
Texmansru47!
 
Hi,

You don't create ova files, just move the `.qcow2` disk image file from your KVM server to Proxmox VE using like `scp` and then create a VM and import the `.qcow2` file using `qm` tool e.g.:
Bash: 
qm importovf <vmid> <manifest> <storage>
 
Moayad said:
Hi,

You don't create ova files, just move the `.qcow2` disk image file from your KVM server to Proxmox VE using like `scp` and then create a VM and import the `.qcow2` file using `qm` tool e.g.:
Bash: 
qm importovf <vmid> <manifest> <storage>
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Perfect... thanks!
 
The image you imported, I would first check if the VM booted, if not then you may check the image if the name correct is.
 
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