[ovirt-users] Issues importing VMs in oVirt

[Richard W.M. Jones]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Cam Mac <iucounu at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:28 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] Issues importing VMs in oVirt
> To: users <users at ovirt.org>
> 
> 
> So the final URI is constructed as:
> 
> vpx://<DOMAIN\user@<vcenter_server>/<folder>/<datacenter_name>/<esxi_server>
> <vm_name>
> 
> The error I get is:
> 
> # virt-v2v -v -x -ic
> vpx://ARDA%5ccam@nssesxi-mgmt/Systems/North%20Sutton%20Street/nssesxi04-mgmt?no_verify=1
> wvm2
> virt-v2v: libguestfs 1.28.1 (x86_64)
> [   0.0] Opening the source -i libvirt -ic
> vpx://ARDA%5ccam@nssesxi-mgmt/Systems/North%20Sutton%20Street/nssesxi04-mgmt?no_verify=1
> wvm2
> input_libvirt_vcenter_https: source: scheme vpx server nssesxi-mgmt
> Enter ARDA\cam's password for nssesxi-mgmt:
> libvirt: ESX Driver error : internal error: Could not find compute resource
> specified in '/Systems/North Sutton Street/nssesxi04-mgmt'
> virt-v2v: error: internal error: invalid argument: cannot open libvirt
> connection
> 'vpx://ARDA%5ccam@nssesxi-mgmt
> /Systems/North%20Sutton%20Street/nssesxi04-mgmt?no_verify=1'
> 
> If reporting bugs, run virt-v2v with debugging enabled and include the
> complete output:
> 
>   virt-v2v -v -x [...]
> #
> 
> 
> # virsh -c 'vpx://ARDA%5ccam@nssesxi-mgmt/Systems/North%20Sutton%20Street/nssesxi04-mgmt?no_verify=1'
> list --all
> Enter ARDA\cam's password for nssesxi-mgmt:
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> error: internal error: Could not find compute resource specified in
> '/Systems/North Sutton Street/nssesxi04-mgmt'

I'm not sure what the problem is, although you are going about
diagnosing the problem in the right way.

I would try not escaping the spaces, double escaping them (%2520), and
also removing elements from the path (especially "/Systems" which does
not seem to be necessary) until you can get a URL that works.

An alternative approach entirely is to use an OVA export:

  http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#input-from-vmware-ova

Rich.

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