[Openstack] Running Xen VMs on Openstack

Girija Sharan girijasharansingh at gmail.com
Thu May 21 05:42:00 UTC 2015


Hi All,

One additional thing which I missed previously is that I am not using RHEL
so the tool *virt-v2v* is of no use for me.

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Girija Sharan <girijasharansingh at gmail.com
> wrote:

> HI All,
>
> It's urgent and a interesting one too.
>
> I have to run VMs from Xen Server on Openstack (with KVM).
> In detail it is like this :
> 1. I have a Xen Server and couple of large VMs (with GBs of data) are
> running on that.
> 2. I have a Openstack multi-node setup with Nova configured to use
> KVM-Qemu as a hypervisor.
> 3. Now I have to run those Xen VMs (as it is, without loosing any data) on
> this Openstack setup.
> 4. I don't want to change Openstack configuration to let Nova use Xen
> hypervisor instead of KVM.
> 5. I tried launching VMs on Openstack using images of VMs running on Xen
> Server, but that is failing.
>
> What is the way to run Xen server's VMs on KVM machine (basically on
> Openstack) ?
> What all I have to do to acheive this?
>
> Any quick help or guidance or pointers will be really appreciated.
> Thanks in advance. Waiting for early replies.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Girija Sharan Singh
>
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