Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?
On 01/17/2014 10:19 AM, Itamar Heim wrote:
I see a lot of threads about v2v pains (mostly from ESX?)
I'm interested to see if we can make this simpler/easier.
if you have experience with this, please describe the steps you are using
(also the source platform), and how you would like to see this make simpler
(I'm assuming that would start from somewhere in the webadmin probably).
I have spent most of the day trying to do this, and so far have failed.
Source: VMWare Server 2.0 disk files (.vmx, .vmdk, etc.), about 10 VMs to
transfer.
Eliminating all the false starts and detours along the way, this is what I
have done so far.
* copy my tree of vmware files to local storage;
in case I goof up or get fumble-fingered and need to start over clean
again.
* Set up a 32-bit VM (running Centos 6)
because vmware-vdiskmanager only seems to come in 32 bit in the VDSDK
package I found to download.
I was planning to do this anyway, to run GoogleEarth and other
software that doesn't come in pure-64bit format.
* run vmware-vdiskmanager -R <file-name.vmdk>
to clean up errors that kept next step from happening on about 1/3 of
*.vmdk files.
* run ovftool <office-5/office-5>.vmx <office-5>.ova
to turn .vmx and .vmdk files into .ova files -- long process
* BEAT HEAD AGAINST WALL because virt-v2v.x86_64 0.9.1-5.el6_5 from Centos
updates doesn't seem to know about .ova files. I was following the
instructions in
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization-3.3-Beta-V2V_Guide-en-US.pdf guide, but I
figured out that the v2v they are talking about has an "-i ova" option,
while the help file for the version I am using does not list ova as an
option for -i, and if I try to use it, it tells me that it is an invalid
option, and if I leave it off it goes off looking for a qemu///system to
attach to. help files for v2v say nothing at all about .ova files.
I am wondering where to find a v2v program that knows about .ova files, or
else am I going to have to import all my VMWare files to my (non-ovirt) KVM
host, and then drag them into ovirt from libvirt?
My setup:
All hosts running Centos 6.5, fully up to date.
2 hosts
engine running in KVM VM, hosted on a non-oVirt KVM host.
gluster replica 3 file system across 2 ovirt hosts and on KVM host.
Going to bed now to give head some rest.
Ted Miller
Elkhart, IN, USA