virt-v2v-support(1)

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version 2.13.8 · 14 versions
, in centos-stream 10

💖 virt-v2v-support(1) — Virtualization Support 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the virt-v2v-support page: the official support tea for virt-v2v(1). ✨

✨ NAME ✨

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this page literally documents which foreign hypervisors, virtualization management systems and guest types that virt-v2v(1) can support. That's the whole assignment. 💅

For more information on supported hypervisors, and guest types in RHEL, please consult the following Knowledgebase article on these Red Hat Customer Portal: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1351473.

💾 Guest firmware 💾

BIOS is supported for all guest types and hypervisors. no cap. 💖

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

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

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. lowkey crucial. 🎀

☁️ UEFI on OpenStack ☁️

Supported since virt-v2v ≥ 1.43.2. slay. 🦋

🧚 UEFI on oVirt 🧚

Supported since oVirt ≥ 4.2 and virt-v2v ≥ 1.39.12. periodt. 💜

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

virt-v2v(1), http://libguestfs.org.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Richard W.M. Jones

Copyright (C) 2009-2025 Red Hat Inc.

📜 LICENSE 📜

okay legal bestie, here's the exact license text, no edits: 📎

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) and paste the complete, unedited output into the bug report.

okay that's the whole page, bestie 💅 — this was virt-v2v-support(1) from virt-v2v-2.13.8, dated 2026-10-05. go convert something cute 🦋✨

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