[Users] Importing an existing VM

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/31/2012 01:49 AM, Andrey Falko wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michal Kopacki [mailto:mkopacki at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:15 PM
>> To: Andrey Falko
>> Cc: users at ovirt.org
>> Subject: Re: [Users] Importing an existing VM
>>
>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:14:58 -0700
>> Andrey Falko<afalko at salesforce.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I am new to ovirt and can't find any documentation about how to import
>>> an existing VM into ovirt. I have a qcow2 image that I know runs under
>>> a KVM hypervisor. Ideally there would be a way for me to import it as
>>> a template because I plan to create other virtual machines based off
>>> this VM.
>>>
>>> I tried virt-v2v, but it will only work if I have a datacenter setup
>>> with NFS. In my case, I have a datacenter setup for local storage
>>> hosts.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andrey
>>>
>>
>>
>>     You should create export domain (nfs but still locally on same
>>     machine) and import existing image to this domain. After succesfull
>>     import you can restore machine to your local images domain and
>>     start VM.
>>
>> --
>> Michal
>>
>
> I was able to do this successfully. Thanks!
>
> My VM however does not start up :(. I keep hitting this error:
> VM testVM2 is down. Exit message internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: Supported machines are: pc RHEL 6.2.0 PC (alias of rhel6.2.0) rhel6.2.0 RHEL 6.2.0 PC (default) rhel6.1.0 RHEL 6.1.0 PC rhel6.0.0 RHEL 6.0.0 PC rhel5.5.0 RHEL 5.5.0 PC rhel5.4.4 RHEL 5.4.4 PC rhel5.4.0 RHEL 5.4.0 PC .
>
> I see this in vdsm.log on the host:
>
> Thread-64891::DEBUG::2012-03-30 22:45:50,372::vm::357::vm.Vm::(_startUnderlyingVm) vmId=`ccb15c61-c20e-4195-9efc-3ca8edf2d9e6`::_ongoingCreations released
> Thread-64891::ERROR::2012-03-30 22:45:50,372::vm::381::vm.Vm::(_startUnderlyingVm) vmId=`ccb15c61-c20e-4195-9efc-3ca8edf2d9e6`::The vm start process failed
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/vdsm/vm.py", line 347, in _startUnderlyingVm
>      self._run()
>    File "/usr/share/vdsm/libvirtvm.py", line 1101, in _run
>      self._connection.createXML(domxml, flags),
>    File "/usr/share/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line 63, in wrapper
>      ret = f(*args, **kwargs)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 2087, in createXML
>      if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed', conn=self)
> libvirtError: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: Supported machines are:
> pc         RHEL 6.2.0 PC (alias of rhel6.2.0)
> rhel6.2.0  RHEL 6.2.0 PC (default)
> rhel6.1.0  RHEL 6.1.0 PC
> rhel6.0.0  RHEL 6.0.0 PC
> rhel5.5.0  RHEL 5.5.0 PC
> rhel5.4.4  RHEL 5.4.4 PC
> rhel5.4.0  RHEL 5.4.0 PC
>
> How do I go about troubleshooting this?

http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2012-March/001401.html

since this seems to be going around, how about opening a bug (use 
keyword: Improvement) to better handle detection of emualted machines at 
host/cluster level)

thanks