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Virt-v2v converts guests from foreign hypervisors to run on KVM

7 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2020-08-26 · latest 2025-10-20

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  1. Yes, fsck for NTFS has a direct immediate real world usage completing this function: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v/blob/dda93d7fd3ef5b2c...
    comment by rwmj · 2025-10-20 · in Ntfsplus: NTFS Filesystem Remake
  2. I'm involved with Red Hat's effort to shift customers off VMware (upstream project: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v ). Things have really blown up since the Broadcom acquisition at the end of 2023. For us 12K VMs is a medium to…
    comment by rwmj · 2025-01-14 · in Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
  3. In virt-v2v we eventually enforced that every module file also has a corresponding interface file: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v/blob/master/check-mli...
    comment by rwmj · 2023-05-02 · in Two Years of OCaml
  4. You can look at the project yourself: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v I've been writing OCaml for 20+ years and C for 40 years, and other contributors have similar decades-long experience in programming.
    comment by rwmj · 2023-04-09 · in Why and how we retired Elm
  5. …they confuse most programmers. Here's an example of one very widely used production application: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v/tree/master/v2v It fits a similar niche to Golang or C++, but unlike those it's an enjoyable language…
    comment by rwmj · 2021-05-13 · in Multicore OCaml: April 2021
  6. …a particular string, XPath is great. Here's it being used in real code (search for "xpath_"): https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v/blob/master/v2v/parse... https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v/blob/master/v2v/parse...
    comment by rwmj · 2021-04-12 · in Traversing nested data-structures in various languages
  7. We've written a bunch of virt tools in OCaml, used by hundreds of customers. eg: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v
    comment by rwmj · 2020-08-26 · in Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing book