<div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id=3D"zwchr"><div style=3D"color:#000;fo= nt-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helveti= ca,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style=3D"color: #000; font-we= ight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helve= tica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Nir Soffer" <nsof= fer@redhat.com><br><b>To: </b>"Maurice James" <mjames@media-node.com&= gt;<br><b>Cc: </b>"Shahar Havivi" <shavivi@redhat.com>, "users" <u= sers@ovirt.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:40:36 PM= <br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/pro= blem<br><div><br></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div cla= ss=3D"gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Maurice James <span dir= =3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:mjames@media-node.com" target=3D"_blank" dat= a-mce-href=3D"mailto:mjames@media-node.com">mjames@media-node.com</a>></= span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0=
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------=_Part_1945_79605831.1443131885645 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It seems that oVirt is not recognizing the qcow2 images. I must convert it to raw which will not work for me because they are too large when expanded ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer@redhat.com> To: "Maurice James" <mjames@media-node.com> Cc: "Shahar Havivi" <shavivi@redhat.com>, "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:40:36 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Maurice James < mjames@media-node.com > wrote: What about the problem with the IDE drives? I think ide is limited to 4 drives, not sure why you see a limit of 3 drives. Vdsm logs showing the errors you get would be very helpful to understand this. Please open an ovirt bug for this, and attach vdsm logs. But if you can use ide drives (hdX?), why not use virtio (vdX)? You can have 16 of these. <blockquote> "The second problem is that these disks are scsi and ti does not seem to work using the virtio-scsi selection. I tried selecting the IDE option, but there is a limit to the number of IDE disks that I can use." From: "Nir Soffer" < nsoffer@redhat.com > To: "Maurice James" < mjames@media-node.com > Cc: "Shahar Havivi" < shavivi@redhat.com >, "users" < users@ovirt.org > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 1:16:49 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Maurice James < mjames@media-node.com > wrote: <blockquote> To convert the images I used: qemu-img convert 250.qcow2 -O raw 250.img -p </blockquote> Sure this will expand the file to the full size, but why do you need raw image? ovirt works with qcow images. <blockquote> oVirt will not allow me to have more than 3 IDE devices on a VM </blockquote> What do you mean by " it does not seem to work using the virtio-scsi selection."? <blockquote> Doesnt 3.6 only work on RHEL/Centos 7? </blockquote> And Fedora 21/22. <blockquote> From: "Nir Soffer" < nsoffer@redhat.com > To: "Maurice James" < mjames@media-node.com >, "Shahar Havivi" < shavivi@redhat.com > Cc: "users" < users@ovirt.org > Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 7:37:58 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Maurice James < mjames@media-node.com > wrote: <blockquote> I have a virtual mail security appliance that I am trying to import into oVirt 3.5.4. The appliance was built for kvm. it has a total of 5 scsi disks. I can convert and copy the OS disk only because it expands its self to full size. The first problem that I have is that the disks expand to their full size when I convert the to an oVirt format </blockquote> How do you convert to ovirt format? <blockquote> OS Disk mail.qcow2 (74M) converts to main.img (294M) Storage disks 250.qcow2 (256K) converts to 250.img (250GB) 1024.qcow2 (256K) converts to 1024.img (1TB) 2048.qcow2 (256K) converts to 2048.img (2TB) 4096.qvow2 (256K) converts to 4096.img (4TB) 8192.qcow2 (256K) converts to 8192.img (8TB) The second problem is that these disks are scsi and ti does not seem to work using the virtio-scsi selection. I tried selecting the IDE option, but there is a limit to the number of IDE disks that I can use. </blockquote> Can you provide more details about "does not seem to work"? <blockquote> Virtualbox has no issues running the appliance that was distributed in the ova format. Any help would be appreciated </blockquote> ovirt-3.6 beta supports import from ova format; maybe you like to try it? Nir <blockquote> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> ------=_Part_1945_79605831.1443131885645 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body><div style=3D"font-family: times new roman, new york, times, se= rif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>It seems that oVirt is not recog= nizing the qcow2 images. I must convert it to raw which will not work for m= e because they are too large when expanded<span name=3D"x"></span><br></div= px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-le= ft-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8e= x; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: s= olid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style=3D"font-family:'times new roman',= 'new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-style=3D"f= ont-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; colo= r: #000000;"><div><br></div><div>What about the problem with the IDE drives= ?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think ide is limi= ted to 4 drives, not sure why you see a limit of 3 drives.</div><div><br></= div><div>Vdsm logs showing the errors you get would be very helpful to unde= rstand this.</div><div><br></div><div>Please open an ovirt bug for this, an= d attach vdsm logs.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>But if you can use id= e drives (hdX?), why not use virtio (vdX)? You can have 16 of these.</div><= div><br></div></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0= px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);borde= r-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px = 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-styl= e: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=3D"font-family:'times new roman','= new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-style=3D"fo= nt-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color= : #000000;"><div><br></div><div><span style=3D"font-size:12pt" data-mce-sty= le=3D"font-size: 12pt;">"The second problem is that these disks are scsi an= d ti does not seem to work using the virtio-scsi selection. I tried selecti= ng the IDE option, but there is a limit to the number of IDE disks that I c= an use."</span><br></div><div><span></span><div><span style=3D"font-family:= 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif" data-mce-style=3D"font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sa= ns-serif;"></span><br></div><div><span style=3D"font-family:'trebuchet ms',= sans-serif" data-mce-style=3D"font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;"><br>= </span></div><div><span style=3D"font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif" dat= a-mce-style=3D"font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;"><br></span></div></= div><hr><div style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal= ;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt= " data-mce-style=3D"color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal= ; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size= : 12pt;"><span class=3D""><b>From: </b>"Nir Soffer" <<a href=3D"mailto:n= soffer@redhat.com" target=3D"_blank" data-mce-href=3D"mailto:nsoffer@redhat= .com">nsoffer@redhat.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Maurice James" <<a href= =3D"mailto:mjames@media-node.com" target=3D"_blank" data-mce-href=3D"mailto= :mjames@media-node.com">mjames@media-node.com</a>><br></span><span class= =3D""><b>Cc: </b>"Shahar Havivi" <<a href=3D"mailto:shavivi@redhat.com" = target=3D"_blank" data-mce-href=3D"mailto:shavivi@redhat.com">shavivi@redha= t.com</a>>, "users" <<a href=3D"mailto:users@ovirt.org" target=3D"_bl= ank" data-mce-href=3D"mailto:users@ovirt.org">users@ovirt.org</a>><br></= span><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, September 23, 2015 1:16:49 PM<div><div class= =3D"h5"><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import ques= tion/problem<br><div><br></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra">= <div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Maurice James <= span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:mjames@media-node.com" target=3D"_bl= ank" data-mce-href=3D"mailto:mjames@media-node.com">mjames@media-node.com</= a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0= px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);b= order-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style=3D"margin: 0px 0px = 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-= style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style=3D"font-family:'times new= roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-st= yle=3D"font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12= pt; color: #000000;"><div><br></div><div>To convert the images I used:<br><= /div><div>qemu-img convert 250.qcow2 -O raw 250.img -p <br></div></div></di= v></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure this will expand the file to the fu= ll size, but why do you need raw image? ovirt works with qcow images.</div>= <div> </div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px = 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-l= eft-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8= ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: = solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style=3D"font-family:'times new roman'= ,'new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-style=3D"= font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; col= or: #000000;"><div>oVirt will not allow me to have more than 3 IDE devices = on a VM<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What do you m= ean by "<span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'times new roman','new = york',times,serif;font-size:12pt" data-mce-style=3D"color: #000000; font-fa= mily: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">it does n= ot seem to work using the virtio-scsi selection."?</span></div><div> <= /div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;bo= rder-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:so= lid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-l= eft-width: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: solid; paddi= ng-left: 1ex;"><div><div style=3D"font-family:'times new roman','new york',= times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-style=3D"font-family:= 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;= "><div>Doesnt 3.6 only work on RHEL/Centos 7?<br></div></div></div></blockq= uote><div><br></div><div>And Fedora 21/22. </div><div> <br></div>= <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-= left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;p= adding-left:1ex" data-mce-style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-w= idth: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: solid; padding-le= ft: 1ex;"><div><div style=3D"font-family:'times new roman','new york',times= ,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-style=3D"font-family: 'tim= es new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><di= v><br></div><div><br></div><span></span><br><hr><div style=3D"color:rgb(0,0= ,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:H= elvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" data-mce-style=3D"color: #000000;= font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-famil= y: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Nir Soffer" = <<a href=3D"mailto:nsoffer@redhat.com" target=3D"_blank" data-mce-href= =3D"mailto:nsoffer@redhat.com">nsoffer@redhat.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Ma= urice James" <<a href=3D"mailto:mjames@media-node.com" target=3D"_blank"= data-mce-href=3D"mailto:mjames@media-node.com">mjames@media-node.com</a>&g= t;, "Shahar Havivi" <<a href=3D"mailto:shavivi@redhat.com" target=3D"_bl= ank" data-mce-href=3D"mailto:shavivi@redhat.com">shavivi@redhat.com</a>>= <br><b>Cc: </b>"users" <<a href=3D"mailto:users@ovirt.org" target=3D"_bl= ank" data-mce-href=3D"mailto:users@ovirt.org">users@ovirt.org</a>><br><b= href=3D"mailto:mjames@media-node.com" target=3D"_blank" data-mce-href=3D"ma= ilto:mjames@media-node.com">mjames@media-node.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>= <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-= left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;p= adding-left:1ex" data-mce-style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-w= idth: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: solid; padding-le= ft: 1ex;"><div><div style=3D"font-family:'times new roman','new york',times= ,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-style=3D"font-family: 'tim= es new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><di= v>I have a virtual mail security appliance that I am trying to import into = oVirt 3.5.4. The appliance was built for kvm. it has a total of 5 scsi disk= s. I can convert and copy the OS disk only because it expands its self to f= ull size. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The first problem that I have is th= at the disks expand to their full size when I convert the to an oVirt forma= t<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How do you convert = to ovirt format?</div><div> </div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" st= yle=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb= (204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style=3D"m= argin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #ccccc= c; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style=3D"font-fa= mily:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,= 0)" data-mce-style=3D"font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif= ; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>OS D= isk<br></div><div>mail.qcow2 (74M) converts to main.img (294M)<br></div><di= v><br></div><div><br></div><div>Storage disks<br></div><div>250.qcow2 (256K= ) converts to 250.img (250GB)<br></div><div>1024.qcow2 (256K) convert= s to 1024.img (1TB)<br></div><div>2048.qcow2 (256K) converts to 2048.img (2= TB)<br></div><div>4096.qvow2 (256K) converts to 4096.img (4TB)<br></div><di= v>8192.qcow2 (256K) converts to 8192.img (8TB)<br></div><div><span></span><= br style=3D"font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif" data-mce-style=3D"font-f= amily: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;"></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><= span><br></span></div><div><span>The second problem is that these disks are= scsi and ti does not seem to work using the virtio-scsi selection. I tried= selecting the IDE option, but there is a limit to the number of IDE disks = that I can use.<br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><di= v>Can you provide more details about "does not seem to work"?</div><div>&nb= sp;</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8e= x;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-styl= e:solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; bord= er-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: solid; p= adding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style=3D"font-family:'times new roman','new yo= rk',times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-style=3D"font-fam= ily: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000= 000;"><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Virtualbox has = no issues running the appliance that was distributed in the ova format. Any= help would be appreciated<br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><b= r></div><div>ovirt-3.6 beta supports import from ova format; maybe you like= to try it?</div><div><br></div><div>Nir</div><div> </div><blockquote = class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1= px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:= 1ex" data-mce-style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; b= order-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><d= iv><div style=3D"font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-= size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)" data-mce-style=3D"font-family: 'times new roman= ','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div><br></div>= <div><span><br></span></div></div></div><br>_______________________________= ________________<br> Users mailing list<br> <a href=3D"mailto:Users@ovirt.o= rg" target=3D"_blank" data-mce-href=3D"mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.= org</a><br> <a href=3D"http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" rel= =3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank" data-mce-href=3D"http://lists.ovirt.org/m= ailman/listinfo/users">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br= div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></b= ody></html> ------=_Part_1945_79605831.1443131885645--