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Source virtual machine prerequisites

The following prerequisites apply to all migrations:

  • ISO images and CD-ROMs are unmounted.

  • Each NIC contains either an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address, although a NIC may use both.

  • The operating system of each VM is certified and supported as a guest operating system for conversions.

Note

You can check that the operating system is supported by referring to the table in Converting virtual machines from other hypervisors to KVM with virt-v2v. See the columns of the table that refer to RHEL 8 hosts and RHEL 9 hosts.

  • VMs that you want to migrate with MTV 2.6.z run on RHEL 8.

  • VMs that you want to migrate with MTV 2.7.z run on RHEL 9.

  • The name of a VM must not contain a period (.). {project-first} changes any period in a VM name to a dash (-).

  • The name of a VM must not be the same as any other VM in the {virt} environment.

    Note

    {project-full} automatically assigns a new name to a VM that does not comply with the rules.

    {project-full} makes the following changes when it automatically generates a new VM name:

    • Excluded characters are removed.

    • Uppercase letters are switched to lowercase letters.

    • Any underscore (_) is changed to a dash (-).

    This feature allows a migration to proceed smoothly even if someone enters a VM name that does not follow the rules.