VM migration from Xen (XCP-ng) to Proxmox using virt-v2v

[Kiotsoukis]

Hi,

migrating VMs from XEN to Proxmox (KVM/QEMU) should work with virt-v2v. Has anyone managed this? It seems that the package libguestfs-tools from Proxmox standard repositories is compiled without XEN support, as is the package for XCP-ng. Can anyone confirm or does anyone know a fix?

Or is there any other way to migrate XEN-VMs where the metadata of the VMs is also migrated? Pure storage conversion doesn't help.

Best,
Alexander

 

[jonas77]

Can't you create a new virtual machine in proxmox with cpu, memory disks as you like and then move/convert the vhd file over to proxmox host? I have been migrated about 50 Xen vms this way with a minimum downtime.

 

[Kiotsoukis]

Can't you create a new virtual machine in proxmox with cpu, memory disks as you like and then move/convert the vhd file over to proxmox host?

That is exactly, what we don't want. We're looking for a solution, that converts the metadata as well, ideally including vlans.