Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm
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From: "Michal Skrivanek"
<michal.skrivanek(a)redhat.com>
To: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske(a)mittwald.de>
Cc: mad1969it(a)gmail.com, users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Monday, August 4, 2014 5:33:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm
On Aug 4, 2014, at 17:26 , Sven Kieske <S.Kieske(a)mittwald.de> wrote:
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> Am 03.08.2014 21:35, schrieb Itamar Heim:
>> On 06/30/2014 09:50 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
>>> No, as far as I know this is _not_ on the roadmap.
>>>
>>
>> actually it is.
>> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration
>>
>> one of my comments to the feature page was it should include a file
>> based conversion, not just from esxi.
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025876.html
>
> No, it's not:
>
> "Offline VMware images (OVAs), not yet. However patches are welcome.
> We quite literally have no one available to implement this."[1]
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> [1]http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025881.html
>
> Or has this changed yet? This would be great news!
well, it is in the plan to do that, so "yes, it's on the roadmap"
is it done? no, not yet…
We're hoping to get it in for 3.6 timeframe…
By the way, how are you going to copy the VM between the two system?
As far as I know scp doesn't handle really well with sparse files (and thin
provisioned VMs are sparse files) ending up copying the fully expanded disk image wasting
a lot of time just transferring zeroes.
Some third party utilities, like virtsync for the KVM world (http://www.virtsync.com/) or
Veam FastSCP (http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esxi-fastscp.html) for the VMWare world, already
implement some smarter copy approach (also a tar with -S option over an ssh pipe is indeed
enough) to make it more efficient and they are quite appreciated.
Are we designing something similar?
thanks,
Simone