<p dir="ltr">You could go old school and create an empty VM, with the right number of disks, how you want it to be setup, then dd if=/your/disks/one/at/a/time of=/the/empty/disks/created/by/ovirt</p>
<p dir="ltr">This happens on the storage server</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 24, 2015 5:58 PM, "Maurice James" <<a href="mailto:mjames@media-node.com">mjames@media-node.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>It seems that oVirt is not recognizing the qcow2 images. I must convert it to raw which will not work for me because they are too large when expanded<span name="x"></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><b>From: </b>"Nir Soffer" <<a href="mailto:nsoffer@redhat.com" target="_blank">nsoffer@redhat.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Maurice James" <<a href="mailto:mjames@media-node.com" target="_blank">mjames@media-node.com</a>><br><b>Cc: </b>"Shahar Havivi" <<a href="mailto:shavivi@redhat.com" target="_blank">shavivi@redhat.com</a>>, "users" <<a href="mailto:users@ovirt.org" target="_blank">users@ovirt.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:40:36 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Maurice James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjames@media-node.com" target="_blank">mjames@media-node.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div><div>What about the problem with the IDE drives?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think ide is limited to 4 drives, not sure why you see a limit of 3 drives.</div><div><br></div><div>Vdsm logs showing the errors you get would be very helpful to understand this.</div><div><br></div><div>Please open an ovirt bug for this, and attach vdsm logs.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>But if you can use ide drives (hdX?), why not use virtio (vdX)? You can have 16 of these.</div><div><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">"The second problem is that these disks are scsi and ti does not seem to work using the virtio-scsi selection. I tried selecting the IDE option, but there is a limit to the number of IDE disks that I can use."</span><br></div><div><span></span><div><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></span></div></div><hr><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span><b>From: </b>"Nir Soffer" <<a href="mailto:nsoffer@redhat.com" target="_blank">nsoffer@redhat.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Maurice James" <<a href="mailto:mjames@media-node.com" target="_blank">mjames@media-node.com</a>><br></span><span><b>Cc: </b>"Shahar Havivi" <<a href="mailto:shavivi@redhat.com" target="_blank">shavivi@redhat.com</a>>, "users" <<a href="mailto:users@ovirt.org" target="_blank">users@ovirt.org</a>><br></span><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, September 23, 2015 1:16:49 PM<div><div><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Maurice James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjames@media-node.com" target="_blank">mjames@media-node.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div><div>To convert the images I used:<br></div><div>qemu-img convert 250.qcow2 -O raw 250.img -p <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure this will expand the file to the full size, but why do you need raw image? ovirt works with qcow images.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>oVirt will not allow me to have more than 3 IDE devices on a VM<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What do you mean by "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt">it does not seem to work using the virtio-scsi selection."?</span></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>Doesnt 3.6 only work on RHEL/Centos 7?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And Fedora 21/22. </div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div><div><br></div><span></span><br><hr><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><b>From: </b>"Nir Soffer" <<a href="mailto:nsoffer@redhat.com" target="_blank">nsoffer@redhat.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Maurice James" <<a href="mailto:mjames@media-node.com" target="_blank">mjames@media-node.com</a>>, "Shahar Havivi" <<a href="mailto:shavivi@redhat.com" target="_blank">shavivi@redhat.com</a>><br><b>Cc: </b>"users" <<a href="mailto:users@ovirt.org" target="_blank">users@ovirt.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, September 22, 2015 7:37:58 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem<div><div><br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Maurice James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjames@media-node.com" target="_blank">mjames@media-node.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>I have a virtual mail security appliance that I am trying to import into oVirt 3.5.4. The appliance was built for kvm. it has a total of 5 scsi disks. I can convert and copy the OS disk only because it expands its self to full size. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The first problem that I have is that the disks expand to their full size when I convert the to an oVirt format<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How do you convert to ovirt format?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>OS Disk<br></div><div>mail.qcow2 (74M) converts to main.img (294M)<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Storage disks<br></div><div>250.qcow2 (256K) converts to 250.img (250GB)<br></div><div>1024.qcow2 (256K) converts to 1024.img (1TB)<br></div><div>2048.qcow2 (256K) converts to 2048.img (2TB)<br></div><div>4096.qvow2 (256K) converts to 4096.img (4TB)<br></div><div>8192.qcow2 (256K) converts to 8192.img (8TB)<br></div><div><span></span><br style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The second problem is that these disks are scsi and ti does not seem to work using the virtio-scsi selection. I tried selecting the IDE option, but there is a limit to the number of IDE disks that I can use.<br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can you provide more details about "does not seem to work"?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Virtualbox has no issues running the appliance that was distributed in the ova format. Any help would be appreciated<br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>ovirt-3.6 beta supports import from ova format; maybe you like to try it?</div><div><br></div><div>Nir</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> Users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" target="_blank">Users@ovirt.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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