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.IX Title "virt-v2v-support 1"
.TH virt-v2v-support 1 "2022-01-01" "virt-v2v-1.44.2" "Virtualization Support"
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.SH "NAME"
virt\-v2v\-support \- Supported hypervisors, virtualization management
systems and guests in virt\-v2v
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This page documents which foreign hypervisors, virtualization
management systems and guest types that \fBvirt\-v2v\fR\|(1) can support.
.PP
Note this page applies to upstream virt\-v2v from
http://libguestfs.org and in downstream distributions of virt\-v2v
sometimes features are intentionally removed, or are present but not
supported.
.SS "Hypervisors (Input)"
.IX Subsection "Hypervisors (Input)"
.IP "VMware ESXi" 4
.IX Item "VMware ESXi"
Must be managed by VMware vCenter ≥ 5.0 unless \s-1VDDK\s0 is available.
.IP "\s-1OVA\s0 exported from VMware" 4
.IX Item "OVA exported from VMware"
OVAs from other hypervisors will not work.
.IP "\s-1VMX\s0 from VMware" 4
.IX Item "VMX from VMware"
\&\s-1VMX\s0 files generated by other hypervisors will not work.
.IP "\s-1RHEL 5\s0 Xen" 4
.IX Item "RHEL 5 Xen"
.PD 0
.IP "\s-1SUSE\s0 Xen" 4
.IX Item "SUSE Xen"
.IP "Citrix Xen" 4
.IX Item "Citrix Xen"
.PD
Citrix Xen has not been recently tested.
.IP "Hyper-V" 4
.IX Item "Hyper-V"
Not recently tested.  Requires that you export the disk or use
\&\fBvirt\-p2v\fR\|(1) on Hyper-V.
.IP "Direct from disk images" 4
.IX Item "Direct from disk images"
Only disk images exported from supported hypervisors, and using
container formats supported by qemu.
.IP "Physical machines" 4
.IX Item "Physical machines"
Using the \fBvirt\-p2v\fR\|(1) tool.
.SS "Hypervisors (Output)"
.IX Subsection "Hypervisors (Output)"
\&\s-1QEMU\s0 and \s-1KVM\s0 only.
.SS "Virtualization management systems (Output)"
.IX Subsection "Virtualization management systems (Output)"
.IP "OpenStack" 4
.IX Item "OpenStack"
.PD 0
.IP "Red Hat Virtualization (\s-1RHV\s0) 4.1 and up" 4
.IX Item "Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.1 and up"
.IP "Local libvirt" 4
.IX Item "Local libvirt"
.PD
And hence \fBvirsh\fR\|(1), \fBvirt\-manager\fR\|(1), and similar tools.
.IP "Local disk" 4
.IX Item "Local disk"
.SS "Guests"
.IX Subsection "Guests"
.PD 0
.IP "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, 6, 7" 4
.IX Item "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, 6, 7"
.IP "CentOS 3, 4, 5, 6, 7" 4
.IX Item "CentOS 3, 4, 5, 6, 7"
.IP "Scientific Linux 3, 4, 5, 6, 7" 4
.IX Item "Scientific Linux 3, 4, 5, 6, 7"
.IP "Oracle Linux" 4
.IX Item "Oracle Linux"
.IP "Fedora" 4
.IX Item "Fedora"
.IP "\s-1SLES 10\s0 and up" 4
.IX Item "SLES 10 and up"
.IP "OpenSUSE 10 and up" 4
.IX Item "OpenSUSE 10 and up"
.IP "\s-1ALT\s0 Linux 9 and up" 4
.IX Item "ALT Linux 9 and up"
.IP "Debian 6 and up" 4
.IX Item "Debian 6 and up"
.IP "Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, and up" 4
.IX Item "Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, and up"
.IP "Windows \s-1XP\s0 to Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016" 4
.IX Item "Windows XP to Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016"
.PD
We use Windows internal version numbers, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions
.Sp
Currently \s-1NT 5.2\s0 to \s-1NT 6.3\s0 are supported.
.Sp
See \*(L"\s-1WINDOWS\*(R"\s0 below for additional notes on converting Windows
guests.
.SS "Guest firmware"
.IX Subsection "Guest firmware"
\&\s-1BIOS\s0 is supported for all guest types and hypervisors.
.PP
VMware allows you to present \s-1UEFI\s0 firmware to guests (instead of the
ordinary \s-1PC BIOS\s0).  Virt\-v2v can convert these guests, but requires
that \s-1UEFI\s0 is supported by the target hypervisor.
.PP
Currently \s-1KVM\s0 supports \s-1OVMF,\s0 an open source \s-1UEFI\s0 firmware, and can run
these guests.
.PP
Since \s-1OVMF\s0 support was only recently added to \s-1KVM\s0 (in 2014/2015), not
all target environments support \s-1UEFI\s0 guests yet:
.IP "\s-1UEFI\s0 on libvirt, qemu" 4
.IX Item "UEFI on libvirt, qemu"
Supported.  Virt\-v2v will generate the correct libvirt \s-1XML\s0 (metadata)
automatically, but note that the same version of \s-1OVMF\s0 must be
installed on the conversion host as is installed on the target
hypervisor, else you will have to adjust paths in the metadata.
.IP "\s-1UEFI\s0 on OpenStack" 4
.IX Item "UEFI on OpenStack"
Supported since virt\-v2v ≥ 1.43.2.
.IP "\s-1UEFI\s0 on oVirt or \s-1RHV\s0" 4
.IX Item "UEFI on oVirt or RHV"
Supported since oVirt/RHV ≥ 4.2 and virt\-v2v ≥ 1.39.12.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fBvirt\-v2v\fR\|(1),
http://libguestfs.org.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Richard W.M. Jones
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright (C) 2009\-2020 Red Hat Inc.
.SH "LICENSE"
.IX Header "LICENSE"
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the \s-1GNU\s0 General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
.PP
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
\&\s-1WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY\s0; without even the implied warranty of
\&\s-1MERCHANTABILITY\s0 or \s-1FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.\s0  See the \s-1GNU\s0
General Public License for more details.
.PP
You should have received a copy of the \s-1GNU\s0 General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, \s-1MA 02110\-1301 USA.\s0
.SH "BUGS"
.IX Header "BUGS"
To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
.PP
To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
.PP
When reporting a bug, please supply:
.IP "\(bu" 4
The version of libguestfs.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)
.IP "\(bu" 4
Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Run \fBlibguestfs\-test\-tool\fR\|(1) and paste the \fBcomplete, unedited\fR
output into the bug report.