On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote: > Greetings, > > ----- Original Message ----- >> stacklet.com >> kvm image > > In that case, what I would do would be to create a new VM with virt-manager but use the disk image file provided. That will basically create /etc/libvirt/qemu/whatever.xml where whatever is the name you gave the VM in virt-manager. Then you can use virt-manager to start, stop, console connect etc... or you can use virsh from the command line. I just went through this migrating Ubuntu hosted virtual machine to CentOS and RHEL. Be aware that the disk images can be stored in different formats, and not all KVM releases or other virtualization technologies can deal with all disk image formats. Most of them have some form of conversion tool, and unfortunately too many of them are prone to naming different formats with the same suffix. KVM is notoriosu for this., they're all *.imng" files unless manually told otherwise from the command line. For example, if somone was using "QCOW" format on Ubuntu, and brings the disk image over to CentOS 6.3, that image needs to be converted with "qemu-img convert -f qcow2 srcfile.qcow targetfile.qcow2" > BTW, if the VM is to have a public IP address then you want to setup a bridge device if you don't already have one, and associate the VM with that when you create it. If it is going to use a private IP address, then you can just use the default NAT. The documentation for this is, unfortunately, very poor and requires manual intervention if you have pair bonding or tagged VLAN's to deal with. > KVM is a little complicated to get going with but the effort is definitely worth it. > > And again, there is good documentation if you do a few searches. > > TYL, > -- > Scott Dowdle > 704 Church Street > Belgrade, MT 59714 > (406)388-0827 [home] > (406)994-3931 [work] > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt