Can Migrate for Compute Engine (Velostrata) be used to migrate KVM/Xen/... VMs into GCE?

[Hector Fiel]

Hello, we are trying to determine if MCE (Migrate for Compute Engine, formerly Velostrata) can migrate VMs running in other hypervisors different from VMWare ESXi (like a KVM or a Xen hypervisor).

Let's say I have:

1) a physical machine with VMware vSphere where we have deployed the Migrate for Compute Engine Backend [1]

2) a physical machine running Proxmox VE [2] (based on KVM)

3) inside the Proxmox, we have an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine.

Question 1: Can I start the Ubuntu VM with the Migrate for Compute Engine physical server connector ISO image [3] and use it to follow the procedure for migrating a physical server [4]?

In that MCE documentation for migrating a physical server [4], it states:

"In addition to migrating virtual machines with common operating systems to Google Cloud, you can use Google Cloud Migrate for Compute Engine (formerly Velostrata) to migrate physical servers or VMs running any OS that is supported by Google Cloud"

That "or VMs" is what is confusing us, since there is no more clarification about what kind of VMs are suported.

Question 2: I understand that if I can boot a VM with the ISO, then I can migrate that VM (as long as the VM's OS is GCE compatible) whatever the hypervisor on top is. Is this correct?

Thanks and best regards.

Refs:

1.- https://cloud.google.com/migrate/compute-engine/docs/4.9/how-to/configure-manager/configuring-vms-vm

2.- https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve

3.- https://cloud.google.com/migrate/compute-engine/docs/4.9/resources/downloads

4.- https://cloud.google.com/migrate/compute-engine/docs/4.9/how-to/prepare-vms-servers/physical-servers

[Frederic Gervais]

Hello Hector,

Currently, it is not possible to migrate VMs that are running on Proxmox.

What you could do, however, is to import the disk of your Ubuntu VM to GCP [1] using these steps [2].

Frederic

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/vm-migration#importing_virtual_disks

[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/import/importing-virtual-disks#importing_virtual_disks

[Declan McArdle]

This works perfectly and takes minutes: https://www.arctiq.ca/our-blog/2018/10/1/upload-a-custom-image-into-google-cloud-platform/

Make sure you can ssh into the machine first!

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[Hector Fiel]

Thank you very much, Frederic and Declan, it really seems the manual image conversion and upload is the only way.

We were hoping to leverage on the MCE migration waves for easing and speeding up the migration process for those cases with several non-VMware VMs.

Best regards! 

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[Digil (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Hector,

If you feels that this can be reported as a feature request for Google Compute Engine, I would recommend you to create one using the issue tracker's Compute Engine component.