On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Arik Hadas <ahadas@redhat.com> wrote:

I didn't refer to it (see above), but for sure it could be a nice add-on feature to provide.

Actually there is a progress bar for the phase of disks copying (after the 'initialization' phase) in the 'status' column of the virtual machines tab.

Ah, ok... I retried with another VM, monitoring this time the behavior and I see at 15:45 the message

Starting to convert Vm T-RHEL5-64

Then up to 16:04 it remains in "Initializing"

Only at 16:04 it begins the copying phase, with a "qemu-img convert" command at host side that starts copying from an image in /var/tmp to the chosen storage domain with an elapsed of about 3 minutes and final completion

Previously I missed the final minutes of the process, so that I noticed only the "Initializing" Status step and the final "Down" Status of the VM....

And what about the "clone" option? In what is it different from no selection of it?

That means that the VM will be imported as a cloned VM - have different mac addresses, different identifiers for the disks, different identifier for the VM.

Ah, ok.

This explains why I get this message while importing a VM without selecting "clone":

VM T-RHEL7 has MAC address(es) 00:50:56:b0:0c:7d, which is/are out of its MAC pool definitions.

In this case to assign an oVirt MAC between the setup ones, only way is to remove and add a new one or what?

Gianluca