Converting ESXi to KVM/libvirt/QEMU

Export ESIi host as OVA. If you exported it as an OVF + disk images (vmdk) then create an OVA from these. An OVA is just a tar archive of these so to make a OVA do so:

tar -cvf /destinationfolder/destination_server.ova /sourcefolder/sourcer_server_folder

Then use virt-v2v to import like so:

virt-v2v -i ova /sourcefolder/SOURCESERVER.ova -of raw -o local -on SERVERNAME -os /destination/dir/

Now you should have the disk images and an XML file in /destination/dir/

Copy the XML file to the right place and execute… then be sure to install virtio drivers and configure optimized devices…