Help moving VMs from XenServer 6.0.2 to XCP-ng 8.3
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I am trying to migrate VMs from a very old pool (XS6.0.2) to XCP-ng 8.3 using Xen Orchestra.
I've tried using "migrate" but get an error because "VM.assert_can_migrate" is not supported by xapi on XS6.0.2, and the process ends when that request fails.
I've tried using the XO replication mechanism, but it fails with the error "FIELD_TYPE_ERROR(key)
This is a XenServer/XCP-ng error"I guess I can export from the source pool to a file and import to the new pool, but I'm wondering if there is any other way I've missed that might make this less painful?
Thanks!
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We use clonezilla method and migrate 100 over VMs with about 15TB of VDI in 2 weekends.
Best regards,
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@wmazren Thanks. I've tried that too. But the src VMs are PV and converting to HVM doesn't seem to work.
I ended up exporting one VM manually, imported into XCP-ng 8.3 but still had problems converting from PV to HVM.
I'll keep trying different things.
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I finally got the PV to HVM working ... forgot to remove the console=hvc0 entry from the kernel params in grub.
Now, to migrate the rest of the VMs ... I think I will just continue with export/import over ssh. It seems to work at a reasonable speed.
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Excellent news! Keep us posted
