<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"><pre style="" class="">>On 21/10/14 07:27, Paul Jansen wrote:
>><i style="" class=""> I've just been doing some searching to try and work out how to get a vmware windows VM into ovirt.
</i>>><i style="" class=""> 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.
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</i>>><i style="" class=""> 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.
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</i>>><i style="" class=""> 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.
</i>>><i style="" class=""> 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.
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</i>>><i style="" class=""> 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.
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</i>>><i style="" class=""> Is there anything int he works to make this process easier?
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>Did you consult the documentation of virt-v2v ?
>Imho all the information you need is there, but I didn't test this
>myself so ymmv.
>Here's the link:
<a style="" class="" href="http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html">virt-v2v</a>
>HTH
>--
>Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards
>Sven Kieske</pre><div style="width:450px; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';margin-top:5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" id="enhancrCard_0" class="" contenteditable="false"><table class="" style="width:450px; height:auto; position: relative; display: block;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody style="" class=""><tr style="" class=""><td class="" colspan="7" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="" style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; line-height:0px;"> </div></td></tr><tr style="" class=""><td rowspan="5" class="" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="" style="width: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1pt;"> </div></td><td rowspan="5" class="" style="width: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 0pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><div class=""
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414px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;"><span style="" class=""></span><span style="" class=""></span><a href="http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html" class="" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: #000000 !important; line-height: 100%; font-size: 18px; display: block;"><span class="" style="margin: 0; font-weight: normal;margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 21px; max-height: 43px; color: #000000; overflow: hidden !important; display: inline-block;">virt-v2v</span></a><div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; color: #999999; max-height: 81px; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';overflow: hidden;" class="">NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION INPUT AND OUTPUT MODES EXAMPLES Convert from VMware vCenter server to local libvirt Convert from ESX to RHEV-M/oVirt Convert disk image to OpenStack glance </div></div></div></td></tr><tr style="" class=""><td colspan="2" class=""
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style="height: 1px; background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; line-height:0px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="" class=""><br style=""></div><div style="" class=""><br class="" style="">Hi Sven.</div><div style="" class="">Yes, I've had a look at that doco. I've even built up a Centos 7 machine and installed the EL7.1 libguestfs preview, which contains the very recent 1.28 release of libguestfs.</div><div style="" class="">I'd be most interested to hear peoples experiences doing these kinds of operations.</div><div style="" class="">I remeber Sandro was soliciting feedback about how the import process could be improved not long ago. It seems this is still an area that needs a bit of polish in ovirt - not to take away from the significant work that Richard Jones in doing with libguestfs and the associated tools.</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div></div></body></html>