Does this do the hard bit, ie installing virtio drivers during conversion?

bityard · 2024-03-27T18:28:41.000000Z

All of the most popular Linux distros tend have the virtio drivers installed by default.

rwmj · 2024-03-27T18:30:04.000000Z

Not in the initramfs which is rather important if you want them to boot without having to use slow emulated IDE. Then there's Windows guests.

prmoustache · 2024-03-28T07:01:31.000000Z

It have been years since I used windows VMs, can't you install .inf driver's file beforehand?

rwmj · 2024-03-28T10:36:35.000000Z

Windows needs at least the boot block device driver to be installed before conversion (else it cannot find the boot disk), and there are many other changes you need to make. Virt-v2v does all this stuff during conversion, and it's hard to get right.

justinclift · 2024-03-27T18:26:24.000000Z

Oh, that would be a smart move. :)

If it doesn't, any idea if it's something they could automate easily?

rwmj · 2024-03-27T20:12:03.000000Z

In recent versions:

  virt-customize -a disk.img --inject-virtio-win <METHOD>

https://libguestfs.org/virt-customize.1.html

However they'll also be missing out on all the other stuff that virt-v2v does.