Migration of KVM VMs to Proxmox

[texmansru47]

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!

 

[Moayad]

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.:

qm importovf <vmid> <manifest> <storage>

 

[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.:

qm importovf <vmid> <manifest> <storage>

Perfect... thanks!

 

[Moayad]

Note, you have to edit the VM config afterwards, to edit the imported image.

 

[texmansru47]

Note, you have to edit the VM config afterwards, to edit the imported image.

Great... do you know what type of edits will be required?

 

[Moayad]

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.