On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 12:04 PM Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 10:49 AM Arik Hadas <ahadas@redhat.com> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 3:50 AM <eevans@digitaldatatechs.com> wrote:
I am running Ovirt 4.3 and exported machines as ova which includes disks. When I re import them. the disks are thin provisioned and the vm will not boot.
Any idea how to get the import to  preallocate disks?  I have vms that will not boot.
It states no bootable disk is available.
It seems the virt2vm isn't working correctly.
ANy help would be appreciated.

There's no option to change the format of the imported disks at the moment so they'd keep being thin-provisioned as they are within the OVA.
I doubt that's the reason for the failure of those VMs to boot though - can you please share the engine.log that shows the configuration that a VM that didn't manage to boot started with?
 
Eric

There were some threads in July 2020 about ova export zero size disks, and so unusable import.
See these bugzillas for more information and also see suggestions about how to put a single line fix to your 4.3 install as there was no backport but solution only on 4.4

Good point.
It's indeed more likely to be the reason than what I had in mind :)
 

HIH,
Gianluca