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

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Andrew Lau <andrew(a)andrewklau.com&gt; wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Jeremiah Jahn > <jeremiah(a)goodinassociates.com&gt; wrote: >> 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? > > I was just looking at the same thing a few hours ago.. so far I've > found two possible options: > > - Create the VM with your disk, find the uuid of that and dd your > source image onto this newly created image > - You should be able to manually create items in your export domain, > they just need a metadata file. > > First is a VM export template and the second is an exported VM Oops, other way round.. > > [root@ov-engine1 images]# cat > 39efaa5f-394c-4842-b791-8eff831bca83/10824522-7e89-4f39-821d-bd7371b23f76.meta > DOMAIN=a571b1f5-b3c6-45d6-99dc-cdc5bdcdc249 > VOLTYPE=LEAF > CTIME=1397108117 > FORMAT=RAW > IMAGE=39efaa5f-394c-4842-b791-8eff831bca83 > DISKTYPE=2 > PUUID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 > LEGALITY=LEGAL > MTIME=1397108118 > POOL_UUID= > DESCRIPTION= > TYPE=SPARSE > SIZE=41943040 > EOF > > [root@ov-engine1 images]# cat > 9efe9fea-fb1d-4945-b10a-93d8914638bc/c06a63de-3761-485a-a6e9-92f6ed586254.meta > DOMAIN=a571b1f5-b3c6-45d6-99dc-cdc5bdcdc249 > VOLTYPE=SHARED > CTIME=1397108361 > FORMAT=RAW > IMAGE=9efe9fea-fb1d-4945-b10a-93d8914638bc > DISKTYPE=2 > PUUID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 > LEGALITY=LEGAL > MTIME=1397108361 > POOL_UUID= > SIZE=33554432 > TYPE=SPARSE > DESCRIPTION= > EOF > > I find the first option would probably be easier. Would be nice to see > a better alternative, ie. the glance import method is quite nice. > >> >> >> -jj- >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users