oVirt / RHV VMware import (v2v-conversion-host)
Red Hat / oVirt community
Open source
Legacy Cold - full outage for the whole copy
Agentless
Mid estates
Workload V2V
What it is good at
Import VMs straight from a vCenter into the oVirt engine from the admin portal.
Where it falls down
RHV is end-of-life; plan a path to OpenShift Virtualization or another KVM platform.
Capabilities
- Automatic driver / guest tools injection
- Wave / batch orchestration
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Open source — Free and open source; paid support optional.
- Indicative price
- No licence cost
- Licence model
- Apache 2.0 open source; RHV itself reached end of maintenance, oVirt continues as a community project.
- How to license it
- Free. If you need vendor support, the supported path is now OpenShift Virtualization or Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager.
- Lifecycle
- Legacy
- Vendor page
- https://www.ovirt.org/
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- XenServer (Citrix Hypervisor)
- Plain KVM / libvirt (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE)
Supported targets
- Red Hat Virtualization / oVirt (legacy)
- Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager / Oracle VM