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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Do you know of the best way to get a vmware guest into ovirt without virt-v2v by chance?</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ted Miller<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">>> On 2/4/2014 10:49 AM, Maurice James wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">>>> Is it possible to import vmware images into ovirt 3.3, Or is a running Esx instance still required?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">>> This bug <a href="https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1749.html">
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1749.html</a> officially withdrew support for importing image files directly, because it didn't always work.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">> Do you know of the best way to get a vmware guest into ovirt without virt-v2v by chance?</span></p>
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No. I had a gluster + sanlock problem take out my ovirt cluster (2 hosts), and I only have it partially back up. My dozen VMs are currently available only when my (dual boot) hardware isn't running oVirt. Or, to put it the other way, I can only run oVirt
when I can take down the VMWare group, because I don't have spare hardware. Working on rebuilding one VM in KVM today (VMWare copy had a problem).<br>
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The only way I have heard succeed is to use ESX/ESXi or the "hollow pig" method. Create a VM in ovirt, including the hard drive. Replace hard drive file with file from VMWare (or otherwise get data into file). Fiddle with VM hardware & settings until it
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Ted Miller<br>
Elkhart, IN<br>
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