To my knowledge there is no easy way to import VMs from virtualbox into ovirt/RHEV. I asked RH support (with a contract) and they said it is not supported.
The way I did it is very painful, so I can tell you it is possible.
1. Use clonezilla ISO and boot your virtualbox vm from that ISO. Use clonezilla to create an image to a share (samba or nfs)
2. Create the new VM in ovirt/RHEV and the virtual drive. Boot from clonezilla and restore the image to the new virtual drive.
I tested this on Linux guests. For windows guests you may need to somehow add the ovirt drivers to the image under virtualbox prior to cloning it.
Diego
> On 04 Dec 2015, at 14:16, Alexander Wels <awels@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday, December 04, 2015 03:03:25 PM Kiril L wrote:
>> As it seems a new server will have to be deployed soon. There is
>> almost no budget and i cannot afford more then one machine.
>>
>> Because of that i was wondering if it would be possible to use
>> VirtualBox (for now) and later migrate to oVirt (when I manage to get
>> a permission)?
>>
>
> Any particular reason you want to use virtual box? Why not do KVM with virt
> manager. That should be a painless conversion to oVirt since the format is the
> same.
Let alone there is much less overhead if the machine specs is not that great and there are no other hosts available
Either way, importing KVM/libvirt VMs are currently a bit cumbersome (3.6 supports v2v from VMware only), but doable with few workarounds, and it’s certainly safer than VMware or VirtuaBox
>
>> I was wondering is there something that i have to do (when setting up
>> the VM) in order to migrate at some point to oVirt?
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