Painless VM Migration

[Bendy_BSD]

Quick question, in terms of migrating an existing vm from an ubuntu desktop (not server edition) that is used by QEMU-KVM, is it really that painless to transfer it to Unraid and using it or is it harder if not impossible to get it to work properly?

 

Just a matter of compatibility I mean.  I just want to make sure that Unraid will be able to understand and interpret the VM (that was imported from Ubuntu) normally as it would with the VMs created on Unraid itself.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Should be able to just copy the qcow volume, of just dd the image of the vm over. But if you want a vm server look at proxmox, it uses kvm aswell and has much better vm controls.

[Bendy_BSD]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Should be able to just copy the qcow volume, of just dd the image of the vm over. But if you want a vm server look at proxmox, it uses kvm aswell and has much better vm controls.

Oh thank goodness!   Just making sure that's all.
 

Oh!  Also, in terms of using Proxmox I would like to ask if it has a similar scheme (or idea) for the XML files to edit settings like physical device assignment? (GPUs, USB controllers, etc.)

 

Or is it slightly different?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Bendy_BSD said:

Oh!  Also, in terms of using Proxmox I would like to ask if it has a similar scheme (or idea) for the XML files to edit settings like physical device assignment? (GPUs, USB controllers, etc.)

Yep its all in a config file. But just saying, gpu passthrough can be picky.

[Bendy_BSD]

 

7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yep its all in a config file. But just saying, gpu passthrough can be picky.

Wonderful!   Thank you so much man, here, have a cookie.