Re: [ovirt-users] how to import a disk image w/o associated vm

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah(a)goodinassociates.com&gt; wrote: > One of the things that I have to where I work, is pull and push disk > images onto appliances and other physical things. This is generally > done with a little dd magic. We'll start up the appliance in a > virtual machine and mess with it in one way or another, then when > we're done we'll take that image and use it to image our appliances > that we send out. So we have this collection of some_system.img > files laying around. With virt-manager I can just stick the image > file in a storage pool somewhere, create a new vm, and attach the > image. > > So my question is how is this done in ovirt. v2v and > engine-upload-image all want a pre-configured vm to work with. That is > not what I have. Is there anyway to do this? I thought it'd be > something like drop an img onto the export domain, and import it, > create a vm around it. Once done export the image back to the export > domain and move it someplace to be useful. This is not the case as far > as I can tell. Am I missing something? I was just looking at the same thing a few hours ago.. so far I've found two possible options: - Create the VM with your disk, find the uuid of that and dd your source image onto this newly created image - You should be able to manually create items in your export domain, they just need a metadata file. First is a VM export template and the second is an exported VM

[root@ov-engine1 images]# cat 39efaa5f-394c-4842-b791-8eff831bca83/10824522-7e89-4f39-821d-bd7371b23f76.meta DOMAIN=a571b1f5-b3c6-45d6-99dc-cdc5bdcdc249 VOLTYPE=LEAF CTIME=1397108117 FORMAT=RAW IMAGE=39efaa5f-394c-4842-b791-8eff831bca83 DISKTYPE=2 PUUID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 LEGALITY=LEGAL MTIME=1397108118 POOL_UUID= DESCRIPTION= TYPE=SPARSE SIZE=41943040 EOF [root@ov-engine1 images]# cat 9efe9fea-fb1d-4945-b10a-93d8914638bc/c06a63de-3761-485a-a6e9-92f6ed586254.meta DOMAIN=a571b1f5-b3c6-45d6-99dc-cdc5bdcdc249 VOLTYPE=SHARED CTIME=1397108361 FORMAT=RAW IMAGE=9efe9fea-fb1d-4945-b10a-93d8914638bc DISKTYPE=2 PUUID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 LEGALITY=LEGAL MTIME=1397108361 POOL_UUID= SIZE=33554432 TYPE=SPARSE DESCRIPTION= EOF I find the first option would probably be easier. Would be nice to see a better alternative, ie. the glance import method is quite nice. > > > -jj- > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users