<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"><div>I've just been doing some searching to try and work out how to get a vmware windows VM into ovirt.</div><div>It seems that the newest virtv2v has dropped support for importing from an ESXi standalone machine - and now only works with vcenter. I didn't have any success with using the current virt-v2v attaching to an ESXi host.<br></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I've prepared the VM by first removing the vmware tools and have installled the various virtio drivers, as well as running the 'mergeide' registry file to enable IDE. I've used 'qemu-img' to convirt this VMDK file to QCOW2. It does not appear
that there is a straightforward way for me to import this new qcow2 disk into ovirt.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">It seems my best option at the moment is to export the VMware VM as an OVA and then try and use a newer virt-v2v to import this into ovirt.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Alternatively I could construct a VM in virt-manager and attach the converted qcow2 disk to it, and then use virt-v2v to import this into ovirt.</div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Can someone suggest an alternative course of action? It seems strange that I can't just import a disk into ovirt, construct a VM and attach the disk.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Is there anything int he works to make
this process easier?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Thanks,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Paul</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>