On 21/10/14 07:27, Paul Jansen wrote:
I've just been doing some searching to try and work out how to
get a vmware windows VM into ovirt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is there anything int he works to make this process easier?
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:
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html
HTH
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