Re: [Users] .ova image file
On 10/12/12 11:26, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 12/10/2012 01:21 PM, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 07/12/12 23:22, Jonathan Horne wrote:
>> Is there a way to convert a .ova image file into ovirt?
>
> We just added support for this to upstream virt-v2v, although it
> requires a very recent qemu to work. F17 isn't new enough. I haven't
> tested F18 qemu yet, but hopefully it'll be good there.
>
Thanks Matt,
can you share any details on the differences from ovf in behavior?
(and i was wondering why a newer kvm is needed?)
We can only output to oVirt's OVF, and we can only import from VMware's
OVA. The command line looks something like:
# virt-v2v -i ova --profile ovirt foo.ova
It needs a new qemu for the latest vmdk driver in order to do the
on-disk format conversion. The vmdk driver has been around for a while,
but it's only just become usable. This has long been the barrier to
implementing this feature.
Matt
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