p2v v2v v2p tool from open source?

Question

I'm searching for secret way how to customize [ProductName] property during the multiinstance installation process (after or during the InstanceTransform process?).

The problem is that when you try to uninstall an instance usually it become a problem to recognize what you need to uninstall: those "predefined" product names like "App Instance 1", "App Instance 2", etc does not help you. Should go to registries and refresh memory...

Solution 1

http://www.mondorescue.org/ try this out!! one of the very good tool

Solution 2

I use KVM in production environments at work.
p2v, we tend to just copy the hard disk (with dd) from a physical entity to an LVM disk, or iSCSI LUN, then set KVM to boot from that.

v2v is easy, if you're using LVM, just snapshot the disk, then clone the VM, edit the domain xml file (easy with libvirtd/virsh), then restart the new clone with the snapshot of the disk.

v2p, again, just use dd to copy the hard disk from LVM to a physical disk (or disk array).

• p2v: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/VolGroup0/virtualDisk
• v2v: lvcreate -L** -s -n snapshot /dev/VolGroup0/original
• v2p: dd if=/dev/VolGroup0/virtualDisk of=/dev/sdb

For dd commands, you may find that you want to set bs=10240 to make copying faster. YMMV and all that.

Solution 3

Richard W.M. Jones of Red Hat (of libguestfs / guestfish fame) has done (and is doing) substantial work in this area. His virt-p2v tool is presently withdrawn to undergo rewrite; however, he has documented a less-automated process to be used in the interim.

Patches providing substantial virt-v2v automation between qemu, VMware ESX and RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization) have committed to libguestfs recently, so there's quite a lot going on.

Comments

[Davide Icardi]

Do you have found a solution for this problem?

[Charles Duffy]

"v2v" often means translating between different systems -- so kvm<->VMware, or RHEV, or such; from that perspective, there's a bit more going on than just copying the backing store.

[Tom O'Connor]

If the virtualization technology is good enough, the OS shouldn't notice.

[neolix]

i have use above tool Rajat it is working for me thanks

[Charles Duffy]

Tom, virtualization technologies tend to provide their own "guest tools" / paravirtual drivers, frequently emulate different hardware, etc. If "good enough" means supporting a superset of the hardware emulated by all your competitors, then maybe that's true, but I'm not so sure that's a reasonable definition.

[Tom O'Connor]

Going P2V, from a number of different hardware architectures, I've managed to virtualise the original instance, without any major hiccups.