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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ok. Thanks. Sounds do-able<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Ted Miller [mailto:tmiller@hcjb.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 05, 2014 3:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> Maurice James; users@ovirt.org<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Users] Import VMware<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div name=divtagdefaultwrapper id=divtagdefaultwrapper><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Maurice James <<a href="mailto:midnightsteel@msn.com">midnightsteel@msn.com</a>></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><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><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a href="mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org">users-bounces@ovirt.org</a> [<a href="mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org">mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ted Miller</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>>> On 2/4/2014 10:49 AM, Maurice James wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>>>> Is it possible to import vmware images into ovirt 3.3, Or is a running Esx instance still required? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote><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><br>>> Ted Miller <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>> From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Maurice James <<a href="mailto:midnightsteel@msn.com">midnightsteel@msn.com</a>></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><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><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#282828'><br>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><br>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 runs.<br><br>Ted Miller<br>Elkhart, IN<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>