[ovirt-users] how to import a disk image w/o associated vm

One of the things that I have to where I work, is pull and push disk images onto appliances and other physical things. This is generally done with a little dd magic. We'll start up the appliance in a virtual machine and mess with it in one way or another, then when we're done we'll take that image and use it to image our appliances that we send out. So we have this collection of some_system.img files laying around. With virt-manager I can just stick the image file in a storage pool somewhere, create a new vm, and attach the image. So my question is how is this done in ovirt. v2v and engine-upload-image all want a pre-configured vm to work with. That is not what I have. Is there anyway to do this? I thought it'd be something like drop an img onto the export domain, and import it, create a vm around it. Once done export the image back to the export domain and move it someplace to be useful. This is not the case as far as I can tell. Am I missing something? -jj-