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I'm looking at moving our XenServer cluster (150 VMs) to OpenStack on KVM. After extensive reading it looks like virt-v2v will do this. However I'm confused about it's usage.

I was going to copy the VHD file and then run virt-v2v on this, then import into Glance, and start an instance. However it appears this isn't the process virt-v2v uses.

Could someone explain the overall process, how to use virt-v2v or any other tool(s) that I will need to convert VMs from XenServer to KVM and import into OpenStack.

The two 'clouds' are separate hardware, over the internet - so i would like to avoid shared storage between them if that's possible, however if it makes it too complex we can sling up a VPN between.

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  • what is the format of you VM's at the moment?
    – Sum1sAdmin
    May 4, 2016 at 10:39
  • They're CentOS 6/7 VMs, most PVM, some HVM. Running live on XenServer at the moment, so the disk is a .vhd.
    – epea
    May 4, 2016 at 11:27
  • qemu-img will convert them quite easily docs.openstack.org/image-guide/convert-images.html
    – Sum1sAdmin
    May 4, 2016 at 12:01
  • This has worked, but what about adding in the libvirt bits and pieces for console etc?
    – epea
    May 4, 2016 at 14:19

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