Ensure that your KVM environment meets the following prerequisites for migration to VMs on KVM:
Use PlateSpin Migrate Client or PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface to migrate workloads to virtual machines on KVM virtual hosts.
You can use KVM as the target virtualization platform in a semi-automated workload migration.
Your target must be a fully virtualized (not paravirtualized) VM.
Your source workload must be supported by PlateSpin Migrate and KVM.
See the following information in Table 2-15, Supported Target KVM Platforms for the Migrate Client Only.
Your network environment must meet the requirements for access, discovery, and migration described in Access and Communication Requirements across Your Migration Network.
Configure volumes on the target disks with about 50 MB of additional storage space than the source disks.
When you use Virtio disks in the target VM on a KVM host, ensure that you configure the target VM with the appropriate disk type as the boot disk:
Virtio and IDE disks: Configure the IDE disk as the boot disk and the Virtio disk as the data disk.
Virtio and non-IDE disks: Configure the Virtio disk as the boot disk and a non-IDE disk such as SATA or SCSI disk as the data disk.
For information about configuring semi-automated migration to a virtual machine on KVM, see Migration to Virtual Machines on KVM.