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From: Maurice James <midnightsteel(a)msn.com
Do you know of the best way to get a vmware guest into ovirt without virt-v=
2v by chance?
From: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] On Behalf Of=
Ted Miller
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class=3D"MsoNormal">>> On 2/4/2014 10:49 AM, Maurice James
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<br No. I had a gluster
+ sanlock problem take out my ovirt cluster (=
2 hosts), and I only have it partially back up. My dozen VMs are curr=
ently available only when my (dual boot) hardware isn't running oVirt. =
; Or, to put it the other way, I can only run oVirt
when I can take down the VMWare group, because I don't have spare hardware=
. Working on rebuilding one VM in KVM today (VMWare copy had a proble=
m).<br <br The only
way I have heard succeed is to use ESX/ESXi or the "hollow pi=
g" method. Create a VM in ovirt, including the hard drive. =
Replace hard drive file with file from VMWare (or otherwise get data into =
file). Fiddle with VM hardware & settings until it
runs.<br <br Ted
Miller<br Elkhart, IN<br <br </div </div
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> On 2/4/2014 10:49 AM, Maurice James wrote:
>> Is it possible to import vmware images into ovirt 3.3, Or is
a running =
Esx instance still required?
> This bug https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1749.html
officially wi=
thdrew support for importing image files directly, because it
didn't always=
work.
> Ted Miller
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From: Maurice James <midnightsteel(a)msn.com>
Do you know of the best way to get a vmware guest into ovirt without
virt=
-v2v by chance?
________________________________
No. I had a gluster + sanlock problem take out my ovirt cluster (2 hosts),=
and I only have it partially back up. My dozen VMs are currently availabl=
e only when my (dual boot) hardware isn't running oVirt. Or, to put it the=
other way, I can only run oVirt when I can take down the VMWare group, bec=
ause I don't have spare hardware. Working on rebuilding one VM in KVM toda=
y (VMWare copy had a problem).
The only way I have heard succeed is to use ESX/ESXi or the "hollow pig" me=
thod. Create a VM in ovirt, including the hard drive. Replace hard drive =
file with file from VMWare (or otherwise get data into file). Fiddle with =
VM hardware & settings until it runs.
Ted Miller
Elkhart, IN
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