Re: [ovirt-users] best way to migrate VMs from VMware to oVirt
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Cam Mac <iucounu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Nir,
I have tried the import vm feature, but with no luck. Here is the original
email I sent, which
includes logs attached of the errors when using this tool:
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-June/040298.html
You wrote:
I can access via http a list of VMs at the following URL:
Below is the URI to the vm itself (once shutdown, it gets the name
'vm2_1'):
Smells like vmware bug, double-escaping %20 to %2520.
Did you check with vmware support?
I would eliminate the spaces in the data center name to avoid such issues.
Nir
Kind regards,
Cam
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Cam Mac <iucounu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I haven't had any luck using the oVirt GUI or virt-v2v (see earlier
> > email),
> > and I need to find a way to migrate quite a few Windows hosts (Windows
> > 7,
> > 2012, 2008, 2k3 etc) into my test oVirt cluster as a PoC so I can make a
> > compelling case for getting rid of VMware. Using OVF files looks like a
> > lot
> > more manual work as compared to the GUI or virt-v2v, with their nice
> > conversion features.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> I think the best way is use our import external vm feature.
>
> Can you point us to the mail about this?
>
> Nir