I successfully imported xem vm to oVirt with the GUI

You need libvirt to be able to list the powered-off vm on the xen host first

What was missing for me at first was :

1) You need a libvirt pool referencing the path to VMs disks.

Verify that's not already the case with 'virsh pool-list',

Otherwise create it :

# cat vm-pool.xml
<pool type="dir">
<name>vm-pool</name>
<target>
<path>/path/to/vmdisks</path>
</target>
</pool>

# virsh pool-create vm-pool.xml
# virsh pool-list ## Should list the newly created pool

2) Then each VM need an UUID present in its xml definition file.

If not present, you can start the vm, do 'virsh dumpxml domainname' and get the UUID for the running VM,

then power it off and edit the xml to add this UUID line, that will make it visible to virsh when powered off.

You can check now with : 'virsh list --all'

3) For a successful import I found that it's also necessary to

- install a non xen kernel in the vm,

- and have disk listed by UUIDs in /etc/fstab (maybe not necessary this last one)

Good luck,

Guillaume Pavese
Ingénieur Système et Réseau

Interactiv-Group

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 7:38 PM Strahil Nikolov via Users <users@ovirt.org> wrote:

I think that you have to export the BM as OVA or convert it to KVM before being able to import via oVirt

Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 12:36, hemaa--- via Users
<users@ovirt.org> wrote:

Any leads please?

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