[ovirt-users] Fwd: question about importing VMware-produced OVA
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From: Shao-Da Huang <sdhuang32(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: question about importing VMware-produced OVA
To: Arik Hadas <ahadas(a)redhat.com>
2018-03-13 15:51 GMT+08:00 Arik Hadas <ahadas(a)redhat.com>:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 6:10 AM, Shao-Da Huang <sdhuang32(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Arik,
>
> I'm Michael, an oVirt user from Taiwan, and I'm trying to import OVAs
> produced by VMware into my data center.
> I've tried the functionality in the 'Virtual Machine' tab -> Import
->
> Source 'VMware Virtual Appliance (OVA)', but I wanna know that is there a
> corresponding REST API so I can use it to automate this procedure?
>
> I found the
> POST /externalvmimports API,
> but it seems not to be used for OVA.
>
Hi Michael,
You can import an OVA via REST-API using that post command. Let's say that
you would like to import an OVA that is located in /home/user/vm.ova on
host 'myhost' then you should set the host to 'myhost', the URL to
'ova:///home/user/vm.ova' and the provider to VMware.
Please let me know if that did the trick.
Thank you very much! It works!
Btw, any reason not to send this to the users-list?
If no such REST API exists, how to use CLI commands combinations to achieve
> the same goal as in the engine UI?
>
> Could you give me some advices?
>
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