P2V
A-12 Oracle VM Server User's Guide
Suppressing the Keyboard Selection Screen
To suppress the Keyboard selection screen, supply the keyboard kickstart parameter,
for example:
keyboard us
Suppressing the Installation Source Screen
To suppress the Installation source screen, supply the source kickstart parameter, for
example:
cdrom
Example P2V Kickstart File
An example P2V kickstart file follows:
p2v
cdrom
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
target --ovmmanager
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
diskimage --device /dev/sda --type IDE
vm_options --name myGuest --mem 1024 --vcpus 1 --consolepasswd mypassword
For more examples and information on using P2V kickstart files, see "Converting a
Linux or Windows Host" in Chapter 8, "Converting Hosts and VMware Virtual
Machines".
Options
The following parameters are accepted in a P2V kickstart file.
p2v
Indicates the kickstart file is intended to automate a P2V conversion. This parameter is
required in order to perform an automated P2V conversion and should be supplied at
the Oracle VM Server boot: prompt instead of install, update, or rescue. It
accepts no parameters.
target [option]
Sets the end destination for the guest image.
The option parameter can only contain the following:
--ovmmanager
Sets the P2V utility to operate in HTTPS server mode to transfer the guest image to a
running instance of Oracle VM Manager.
diskimage [option...]
Denotes a disk to be included in the guest image. The P2V utility uses device
mapper-based snapshotting to copy the disk as a system-*.img file on the target
computer. There may be multiple diskimage directives in a P2V kickstart file, each
resulting in a disk image in the guest image. The --device parameter must always be
used with the diskimage directive to indicate which device should be imaged.
The option parameter is one or more of the following:
--device path
The device to image. path must be the full path to the device. For example:
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