<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com" target="_blank">rjones@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">As you may know virt-v2v can use the Export Storage Domain (ESD) to<br>
upload converted virtual machines to oVirt. It was brought to my<br>
attention yesterday that the ESD feature is being dropped, so this<br>
will no longer work at some point in the future. (BTW I would<br>
appreciate notice if you're going to drop major features that we rely on.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We are not dropping it tomorrow.</div><div>We are slowly deprecating it.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Although virt-v2v can still work via the GUI, this isn't really<br>
suitable for bulk, scripted upload of hundreds or thousands of VMs.<br>
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The ESD method was never very good. It was sort of an undocumented<br>
back door into oVirt, and it was slow, and still required manual<br>
intervention (after virt-v2v had done its job, you still needed to go<br>
through the GUI and import the guests into the Data Domain).<br>
<br>
What we really need is a fully scripted method to upload VMs --<br>
metadata and disk images -- to oVirt. Maybe one exists already? If<br>
not, what's the best way to do this?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And indeed, we won't deprecate it without a suitable replacement.</div><div>While you can already upload disks, we are working towards upload/download of VMs.</div><div>See <a href="http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/virt/enhance-import-export-with-ova/">http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/virt/enhance-import-export-with-ova/</a></div><div>Y.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Rich.<br>
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