Hi Rich,

> >
>
> I can try this but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. The ovf I created
> via guest-image-ovf-creator is on an NFS mount
> on the engine: do I need to run virt-v2v on one of the nodes? If so, I
> assume I need to set the output to an export domain.
> Does '-o local' stick it on the node's VM storage?

Yes, don't use -o local.

virt-v2v has an -o rhev option which will import directly from VMware
to RHEV or oVirt. Please see the manual:

http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#convert-from-vmware-to-rhev-m-ovirt
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#output-to-rhev

I'm using 'virt-v2v -v -i ova wvm2.ovf -o rhev -os ovirt-engine:/mnt/export-vm' (my export domain), though unfortunately it fails

Error is:

[root@kvm-ldn-01 tmp]# virt-v2v -v -x -i ova wvm2.ovf -o rhev -os ovirt-engine:/mnt/export-vm

virt-v2v: libguestfs 1.28.1 (x86_64)

[ 0.0] Opening the source -i ova wvm2.ovf

tar -xzf 'wvm2.ovf' -C '/var/tmp/ova.dEFSqi'

virt-v2v: error: could not parse ovf:Name from OVF document

If reporting bugs, run virt-v2v with debugging enabled and include the

complete output:

virt-v2v -v -x [...]

[root@kvm-ldn-01 tmp]

I can attach the XML ovf file that is is inside the ovf archive if that is a help.

BTW: is there a way of specifying the extraction directory? My first attempt filled up /var/tmp until I found another host

that luckily had a big enough partition.

Thanks,

Cam

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