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Table Of Contents
- User’s Manual
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- System Requirements
- Application Requirements
- Memory Requirements for Cold Cloning
- Virtual Machine and System Image Requirements
- Restoring VCB Images in Converter
- Supported Destinations
- Configuring Permissions for VirtualCenter Users
- Level of Internationalization Support
- How Converting Affects Settings
- Changes to Virtual Hardware
- TCP/IP Port Requirements
- Remote Hot Cloning Troubleshooting Tips
- Installing and Uninstalling
- Converting Machines
- Using the Converter Boot CD for Local Cold Cloning
- Configuring VMware Virtual Machines
- Managing Tasks
- Appendix: Migration with p2vTool Command-Line Interface
- Glossary
- Index
VMware Converter User’s Manual
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Example A-5. Importing a Managed Source to a Managed Destination, Explicitly Specifying Optional
Parameters
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<p2v version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/v2/sysimage/p2v"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.vmware.com/v2/sysimage/p2v p2v.xsd">
<source>
<managedSpec vmId="a-virtual-machine">
<!-- username and password may be omitted, in which case you will be interactively
prompted for credentials -->
<creds host="vc-server" username="Administrator" password="adminPassword" />
</managedSpec>
</source>
<dest>
<managedSpec vmName="a-new-virtual-machine" datastore="storage2" folder="my-vms"
cluster="vc-cluster-3" host="an-ESX-host-attached-to-dest-vc-server"
resourcePool="vc-resource-pool-1">
<!-- username and password may be omitted, in which case
you will be interactively prompted for credentials -->
<creds host="dest-vc-server" username="Administrator" password="adminPassword" />
</managedSpec>
</dest>
<importParams targetProductVersion="PRODUCT_MANAGED" diskType="VMFS" clonePagefile="false">
<!--The p2vTool -q [--query] option retrieves source information, and its XML output contains
the volumeID. Link to out put XML -->
<volumesToClone>
<volumeCloneInfo volumeId="{computer={d7e40f6d3ddd078441daab8676a2ed13d2fe8bd2},1}"
resize="true" separateDisk="false" newSize="10000000000" />
<volumeCloneInfo volumeId="{computer={d7e40f6d3ddd078441daab8676a2ed13d2fe8bd2},2}"
resize="false" separateDisk="true" >/
</volumesToClone>
<diskLocations>
<diskLocation disk="#storage2" />
<diskLocation disk="#storage3" />
</diskLocations>
</importParams>
<postProcessingParams>
<reconfigParams />
</postProcessingParams>
</p2v>
Example A-6. Importing a Hosted Source to a Managed Destination
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<p2v version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/v2/sysimage/p2v"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.vmware.com/v2/sysimage/p2v p2v.xsd">
<source>
<!-- the "password" attribute is only used for encrypted sources such as Symantec's SV2I
format and can be omitted for other types of sources -->
<hostedSpec path="d:\My Virtual Machines\a-virtual-machine\a-virtual-machine.vmx"
password="" />
</source>
<dest>
<managedSpec vmName="a-new-virtual-machine">
<!-- username and password may be omitted, in which case you will be interactively
prompted for credentials -->
<creds host="vc-server" username="Administrator" password="adminPassword" />
</managedSpec>
</dest>
<importParams targetProductVersion="PRODUCT_MANAGED" />
<postProcessingParams>
<reconfigParams />
</postProcessingParams>
</p2v>