Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 4.1: clone option of importing from VMware
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 3:36 PM Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm doing some tests to import VMs from VMware and verify functionality.
> Great newcomer in 4.1
>
It was added in 4.0, I believe.
Ah, ok. Never tried before from web admin gui.
I confused in release notes of 4.1.0 with the feature:
BZ 1294629 Improve loading external VMs speed
> And after about 20 minutes (the original VM has only one thin provisioned
> disk 4Gb/8Gb) the lock goes away and the status of the VM becomes down and
> in events pane I get only now the sequence:
>
> Feb 27, 2017 2:20:42 PM Vm T-RHEL6-64 was imported successfully to Data
> Center Default, Cluster Default
>
And this is the end of the task.
Yes, I mean that during the 20 minutes elapsed time, it results that no
tasks are in execution.
Is this correct because it is considered a sort of external task or is it a
bug?
> It seems to me not so clear experience for the user importing, especially
> I imagine in case of more than one import and with big disks.
>
I guess as always, we could try to improve with progress bar...
I didn't refer to it (see above), but for sure it could be a nice add-on
feature to provide.
And what about the "clone" option? In what is it different from no
selection of it?
Thanks,
Gianluca
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