[Openstack] Running Xen VMs on Openstack

Girija Sharan girijasharansingh at gmail.com
Thu May 21 18:56:43 UTC 2015


Hi Bob,

Thanks for your early response, but I have no other options than running
Xen Server VMs on KVM, as this is requirement for my team.
We don't want to launch new VMs on KVM, instead our need is to migrate
running Xen Server VMs as it is on KVM.
For this I am trying to convert Xen Server image to qcow2 image and then
uploading on glance and then finally launching VMs using nova.
This way I will have my running Xen Server VMs migrated on KVM.
But I am not able to acheive this image conversion so far.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
On May 21, 2015 11:47 PM, "Bob Ball" <bob.ball at citrix.com> wrote:

>  Hi Girija,
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> I can’t help with converting XenServer VMs to KVM but can I ask why
> running XenServer under your OpenStack cloud isn’t considered an option?
>
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> Clearly there are some differences with VM setup (e.g. the VM may be set
> up to use a specific disk name which won’t be present if you move to use
> the virtio interface) that might make it difficult to move an existing VM
> between any two hypervisors.  As such it may well be easier to use
> XenServer in your OpenStack infrastructure?
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> You could also have a mixed-hypervisor environment if that would meet your
> requirements.
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> Thanks,
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>
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> Bob
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> *From:* Girija Sharan [mailto:girijasharansingh at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 21 May 2015 06:26
> *To:* openstack at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* [Openstack] Running Xen VMs on Openstack
>
>
>
> 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.
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> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Girija Sharan Singh
>
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