Migrating VM to new supervisor - general question
Hello, I planned to move my VMs to a new (VM) supervisor, because I want to use another operation system for it. I am doubting myself, if this is such a good idea. When all my VMs are on different disks, can I just install a different OS on the root partition and just import the qcow2 files afterwards. Or am I risking losing my VMs/disks? I am a little bit afraid of messing it up... Thank you.
Hi, Why not duplicate the machines without removing the original ones and start them on the target machines. Then you will find out without risking your VMs... Bye, Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in. On Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 14:41 <fc26wuqa@studserv.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
Hello, I planned to move my VMs to a new (VM) supervisor, because I want to use another operation system for it. I am doubting myself, if this is such a good idea.
When all my VMs are on different disks, can I just install a different OS on the root partition and just import the qcow2 files afterwards.
Or am I risking losing my VMs/disks?
I am a little bit afraid of messing it up...
Thank you.
Hi, thank you for your response. So duplicate the VMs to the different supervisor and start them there? Did I understand you correctly? Thank you so much. On 4/20/26 15:13, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
Hi,
Why not duplicate the machines without removing the original ones and start them on the target machines. Then you will find out without risking your VMs...
Bye,
Erik.
http://efficito.com <http://efficito.com/> -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 14:41 <fc26wuqa@studserv.uni-leipzig.de <mailto:fc26wuqa@studserv.uni-leipzig.de>> wrote:
Hello, I planned to move my VMs to a new (VM) supervisor, because I want to use another operation system for it. I am doubting myself, if this is such a good idea.
When all my VMs are on different disks, can I just install a different OS on the root partition and just import the qcow2 files afterwards.
Or am I risking losing my VMs/disks?
I am a little bit afraid of messing it up...
Thank you.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 15:16 <fc26wuqa@studserv.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
Hi, thank you for your response.
So duplicate the VMs to the different supervisor and start them there? Did I understand you correctly?
Exactly.
Thank you so much.
On 4/20/26 15:13, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
Hi,
Why not duplicate the machines without removing the original ones and start them on the target machines. Then you will find out without risking your VMs...
Bye,
Erik.
http://efficito.com <http://efficito.com/> -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 14:41 <fc26wuqa@studserv.uni-leipzig.de <mailto:fc26wuqa@studserv.uni-leipzig.de>> wrote:
Hello, I planned to move my VMs to a new (VM) supervisor, because I want to use another operation system for it. I am doubting myself, if this is such a good idea.
When all my VMs are on different disks, can I just install a different OS on the root partition and just import the qcow2 files afterwards.
Or am I risking losing my VMs/disks?
I am a little bit afraid of messing it up...
Thank you.
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