Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem

What about the problem with the IDE drives?

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(a)redhat.com&gt; *To: *"Maurice James" <mjames(a)media-node.com&gt; *Cc: *"Shahar Havivi" <shavivi(a)redhat.com&gt;, "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; *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(a)media-node.com&gt; wrote: > > To convert the images I used: > qemu-img convert 250.qcow2 -O raw 250.img -p > Sure this will expand the file to the full size, but why do you need raw image? ovirt works with qcow images. > oVirt will not allow me to have more than 3 IDE devices on a VM > What do you mean by "it does not seem to work using the virtio-scsi selection."? > Doesnt 3.6 only work on RHEL/Centos 7? > And Fedora 21/22. > > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Nir Soffer" <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt; > *To: *"Maurice James" <mjames(a)media-node.com&gt;, "Shahar Havivi" < > shavivi(a)redhat.com&gt; > *Cc: *"users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; > *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(a)media-node.com&gt; > wrote: > >> 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 >> > > How do you convert to ovirt format? > > >> >> >> 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. >> > > Can you provide more details about "does not seem to work"? > > >> >> >> Virtualbox has no issues running the appliance that was distributed in >> the ova format. Any help would be appreciated >> > > ovirt-3.6 beta supports import from ova format; maybe you like to try it? > > Nir > > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> > >