Convert Xen XVA to KVM Rumi, August 23, 2023 Citrix Xen uses a custom virtual appliance format for import/export called “XVA”. it’s basically a strangely crafted tar-file. You don’t need this program to unpack this tar-file, just use your favourite tar unpacker (tar, gtar, bsdtar). Once unpacked you will end up with a lot of different files, ova.xml (which… Continue Reading
Cloning KVM virtual machine using CLI Rumi, July 21, 2021 To clone your VM and spawn new instances in KVML # virt-clone –original {Domain-Vm-Name-Here} –auto-clone OR # virt-clone –original {Domain-Vm-Name-Here} –name {New-Domain-Vm-Name-Here} –auto-clone OR # virt-clone –original {Domain-Vm-Name-Here} \ –name {New-Domain-Vm-Name-Here} –file {/var/lib/libvirt/images/File.Name.here} Continue Reading
Reclaim disk space from a sparse image file qcow2/ vmdk Rumi, July 23, 2020July 23, 2020 Sparse disk image formats such as qcow2 only consume the physical disk space which they need. For example, if a guest is given a qcow2 image with a size of 100GB but has only written to 10GB then only 10GB of physical disk space will be used. There is some… Continue Reading
Clone KVM-based Virtual Machines on Redhat / CentOS Linux Rumi, February 24, 2020 Prerequisite: Operating System and Software Versions Operating System: – Redhat 7.3 Software: – libvirtd (libvirt) 2.0.0 Obtain Source Virtual Machine’s information Before we begin cloning any virtual machine we first need to obtain some basic information about it. The absolute minimum information required about the source virtual machine we are… Continue Reading
Convert .ova and import it on Proxmox KVM virtualization Rumi, January 8, 2018 Let’s start uploading the exported ova file to the proxmox server. Extract the OVA file: tar -xvf *.ova This should output a couple of files from the OVA container, it should include an OVF file, which is the VM Defenition file, and a VMDK file, which is the actual hard… Continue Reading