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    Xen Orchestra 5.110 V2V not working

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      farokh
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      Another thing to note, the original VM had 5 total network interfaces, and the imported machine has 5 network interfaces, but all 5 were connected to the same interface (which was the only one selectable during the import).

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        farokh
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        Starting to play with the imported VM, and there are 2 snapshots, both from the import process. I'm going run the VM with them for now and then try deleting them once I see it's working.

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          florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @farokh
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          @farokh If my understanding it correct : it migrated the source VM correctly , without breaking anything on esxi side, but it would be better if the V2V gives more feedback to the user ?
          Also, you would like to be able to select different networks as target ?

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            farokh @florent
            last edited by farokh

            @florent That's a good summary, however, V2V did power off the VM before starting the import, which defeats the point of a warm migration, and the power off is abrupt, not allowing the OS to cleanly shutdown, which means that there's a potential for data loss.

            Thank you.

            Edit: I was just looking at the blog post for 5.110 and I noticed this:
            The interface has been polished as well. There’s now a progress bar visible from the start of the migration, speed metrics are recorded in the VDI, and snapshots are created at each step. This allows the process to pause and resume safely without needing to create multiple VMs. Finally, UEFI VMs are no longer forced into Secure Boot mode, avoiding previous boot issues.

            I guess I'm confused as to why I didn't see any of this?

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              florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @farokh
              last edited by florent

              @farokh do you have at least one snapshot on the source ? The data migrated while the VM is running are the data before the last snapshot

              The power off is effectively a call to powerOff, is there a better alternative (that can work with or without the vmware tools installed) ?

              the progress bar are visible in the task view, or on the disk tab on the VM being imported ( not yet in the form , this will probably wait for the XO6 version of this page )

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                farokh @florent
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                @florent Yes, I made sure that I had a snapshot.

                I guess my main question is why the VM is being powered off? It's supposed to be a warm migration, meaning the VM is running while the data is migrated, correct?

                But, assuming that you have to power the VM down, and I haven't done any programming or scripting with ESXi, but I can tell you that the web interface can tell if the VM has the tools installed. If the tools are installed, you should be able to send a Shutdown request, which should shut the machine down gracefully, allowing the OS to perform tasks prior to powering off. You can wait a few minutes and if the machine hasn't powered off yet, you could then issue the power off command to stop it.

                Next time I test a migration, I'll check the task and/or disk to see the status.

                Thanks.

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                  farokh @farokh
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                  Hi, just wondering if there's any update on why the VMs are being shutdown for the migration.

                  Thanks.

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                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                    We made a patch release of XOA, improving some aspects. Have you tried it?

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                      farokh @olivierlambert
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                      @olivierlambert No, I wasn't aware. I'll take a look.
                      Thanks.

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                        farokh @farokh
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                        Is there a blog or forum post about the updates? I can't seem to find anything.

                        Thanks.

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