On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 02:52:56PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Yaniv wrote:
And indeed, we won't deprecate it without a suitable replacement. While you can already upload disks, we are working towards upload/download of VMs. See http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/virt/enhance-import...
My concern with this (if I've understood it correctly) is it's going to be slow and require considerable extra storage on the conversion server.
At the moment -- using NFS -- we can stream from VMware to oVirt, requiring almost no local storage on the conversion server.
Thinking about this overnight, another way to do this would be to allow the import of "OVA directories". OVA doesn't need to be packed into a tarball, the standard allows an OVA to be an unpacked directory (directory containing disk images + OVF file). Create a ‘/import’ directory on the NFS server, and allow OVA directories to be uploaded to there. We could stream the disk content as now. Then provide a REST API to import an OVA (directory) from /import on the NFS server to complete to operation. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/