Hi,
You can import regular qcow2 images into ovirt with few steps:
1)check what kind of  image you have qemu-img -info vm4import.img
2) create an vm with exact disk image size as qemu-img -info shows.
3) run vm in paused mode(sometimes it is hard to find out the VM disk)
4) go to host where paused vm is running: find /rhev |grep "your vm uuid" and get your vm image UUID
5) do not use dd, use better
qemu-img convert -p  -O raw $1  ${2} or
qemu-img convert -p  -O qcow2 $1  ${2}
with -p option you have a nice progress bar:)

Then poweroff the paused vm and start it.
Maybe someone has a better tools, but sometimes better to get an idea behind the scene without any wodoo scripts.



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 Dr. Arman Khalatyan  eScience -SuperComputing
 Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)            
 An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany              

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On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Barak Korren <bkorren@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
> Maybe this will help you?:
> https://jonarcher.info/2014/02/import-regular-kvm-image-ovirt-rhev/
>
Thanks! this looks like a step in the right direction!

A few caveats I see and further questions:
1. Seems I would require a storage domain where I can access the files
from somewhere external to the system. I guess I could try using a VM
running on the same engine instead and attach/detach disks to/from it.
2. This creates a non-sparse, non-thin VM disk no? How much space did
the disk take once you were done?


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RHEV-CI Team
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