---
name: "virt-v2v-support"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "virt-v2v"
version: "2.6.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/virt-v2v-support"
---

# virt-v2v-support(1)

Supported hypervisors, virtualization management systems and guests in virt-v2v

## NAME

virt-v2v-support - Supported hypervisors, virtualization management systems and guests in virt-v2v

## DESCRIPTION

This page documents which foreign hypervisors, virtualization management systems and guest types that [**virt-v2v**(1)](/virt-v2v/1.md) can support.

Note this page applies to upstream virt-v2v from http://libguestfs.org and in downstream distributions of virt-v2v sometimes features are intentionally removed, or are present but not supported.

### Hypervisors (Input)

- VMware ESXi

  Must be managed by VMware vCenter ≥ 5.0 unless VDDK is available.

- OVA exported from VMware

  OVAs from other hypervisors will not work.

- VMX from VMware

  VMX files generated by other hypervisors will not work.

- RHEL 5 Xen

  - SUSE Xen

  - Citrix Xen

  Citrix Xen has not been recently tested.

- Hyper-V

  Not recently tested.  Requires that you export the disk or use [**virt-p2v**(1)](/virt-p2v/1.md) on Hyper-V.

- Direct from disk images

  Only disk images exported from supported hypervisors, and using container formats supported by qemu.

- Physical machines

  Using the [**virt-p2v**(1)](/virt-p2v/1.md) tool.

### Hypervisors (Output)

QEMU and KVM only.

### Virtualization management systems (Output)

- OpenStack

  - Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.1 and up

  - Local libvirt

  And hence [**virsh**(1)](/virsh/1.md), [**virt-manager**(1)](/virt-manager/1.md), and similar tools.

- Local disk

  ### Guests

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6, 7

  - CentOS 4, 5, 6, 7

  - Scientific Linux 4, 5, 6, 7

  - Oracle Linux

  - Fedora

  - SLES 10 and up

  - OpenSUSE 10 and up

  - ALT Linux 9 and up

  - Debian 6 and up

  - Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, and up

  - Windows XP to Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016

  We use Windows internal version numbers, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Microsoft\_Windows\_versions

  Currently NT 5.2 to NT 6.3 are supported.

  See "WINDOWS" below for additional notes on converting Windows guests.

### Guest firmware

BIOS is supported for all guest types and hypervisors.

VMware allows you to present UEFI firmware to guests (instead of the ordinary PC BIOS).  Virt-v2v can convert these guests, but requires that UEFI is supported by the target hypervisor.

Currently KVM supports OVMF, an open source UEFI firmware, and can run these guests.

Since OVMF support was only recently added to KVM (in 2014/2015), not all target environments support UEFI guests yet:

- UEFI on libvirt, qemu

  Supported.  Virt-v2v will generate the correct libvirt XML (metadata) automatically, but note that the same version of OVMF must be installed on the conversion host as is installed on the target hypervisor, else you will have to adjust paths in the metadata.

- UEFI on OpenStack

  Supported since virt-v2v ≥ 1.43.2.

- UEFI on oVirt or RHV

  Supported since oVirt/RHV ≥ 4.2 and virt-v2v ≥ 1.39.12.

## SEE ALSO

[**virt-v2v**(1)](/virt-v2v/1.md), http://libguestfs.org.

## AUTHOR

Richard W.M. Jones

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Red Hat Inc.

## LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

## BUGS

To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter\_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

When reporting a bug, please supply:

- •

  The version of libguestfs.

- •

  Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)

- •

  Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.

- •

  Run [**libguestfs-test-tool**(1)](/libguestfs-test-tool/1.md) and paste the **complete, unedited** output into the bug report.