Physical system to virtual conversion

virt-v2v can to talk to a foreign hypervisor to obtain a VM's virtual hardware information and metadata. But when the source is a physical system, virt-v2v cannot gather information on hardware. To solve this virt-v2v relies on a small bootable image to run a tool named virt-p2v on the physical host. virt-p2v sends the physical system's data over SSH to the virt-v2v host, which then convert it to a VM on the target hypervisor.

Creating a virt-p2v bootable image

virt-p2v bootable media is unfortunately not available on any official Fedora site for download. You will need build it on your own using either the virt-p2v-make-disk (http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v-make-disk.1.html) or virt-p2v-make-kickstart (http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v-make-kickstart.1.html) utilities. Both these utilities are part of the virt-v2v package. Perform the following steps in order to create a virt-p2v bootable image:

1. Write a virt-p2v bootable USB key on /dev/sdX:

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