Re: [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v integration feature

On 07/09/2014 09:30 PM, Arik Hadas wrote: Some thoughts after reviewing: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration great to see this - its something which i hope will ease a lot conversion to oVirt! adding users@ mailing list, to get feedback on the use cases. 1. Need to understand if possible to provide the VM via 'uploading it'[1] 2. does this really merit a provider per external system? or just ability to choose source path (including simple nfs/posix path pointing to existing kvm disks or vmware vmdk's), or URI/user /passowrd for such a system if vsphere/etc.? I'm not opposed to allowing to define providers, I would just remember that's a specific single use case, and would separate the import/convert flow from being part of the provider (i.e., on the import/convert flow, would allow to choose the source being a path or a pre-defined provider) to sum above two points, I think the page should start with 'use cases': - I have a KVM VM i want to 'convert' to RHEV (doesn't need full v2v, but libvirt-->ovf conversion?) the VM(s) is/are in an nfs/posix path, or i want to upload the VM. - i have a folder with VMs/disks i want to convert (make sure this covers the ESXi flow) - I have a vsphere to import VMs from - I have Xen... (hope to see input from users on these. I'm sure there was a thread on this in the past, what do you know, i started one...[2]) 3. does this mean virt-v2v and all of its dependencies will be required by vdsm (and on ovirt-node). also, for distro's which have it, of the required windows components? 4. most important flow i would like to remove via this integration is the "double copy". i.e., if we run v2v from a host, there is no reason to not pre-create the VM/disks for it, and have v2v overwrite their content, instead of converting into the export domain just to perform another copy/import. (may mean you want virt-v2v to have a specific verb to just get the OVF, and a specific verb to convert a disk) [1] we want to support upload of an iso/VM/disks in any case. [2] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/019839.html