--Apple-Mail-78A8701D-01D3-40A6-855F-5AE2F9251156 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Just try throwing ideas out there... I actually use virtualbox tools to conv= ert all my disks... VBoxManage clonehd Once converted to a raw image I use KVM to import to my storage and than v2v= to import it to oVirt. I have a small script I wrote that does this automatically for me.... I have converted .vdi, .vmdk, .qcow2, etc.... It has never fail me... Sent from iPhone
On Oct 21, 2014, at 2:38 PM, Joey Boggs <jboggs@redhat.com> wrote: =20
On 10/21/2014 11:23 AM, Federico Alberto Sayd wrote:
On 21/10/14 02:27, Paul Jansen wrote: I've just been doing some searching to try and work out how to get a vmw= are windows VM into ovirt. It seems that the newest virtv2v has dropped support for importing from a= n ESXi standalone machine - and now only works with vcenter. I didn't have a= ny success with using the current virt-v2v attaching to an ESXi host. =20 I've prepared the VM by first removing the vmware tools and have install= led the various virtio drivers, as well as running the 'mergeide' registry f= ile to enable IDE. I've used 'qemu-img' to convirt this VMDK file to QCOW2.= It does not appear that there is a straightforward way for me to import th= is new qcow2 disk into ovirt. =20 It seems my best option at the moment is to export the VMware VM as an O= VA and then try and use a newer virt-v2v to import this into ovirt. Alternatively I could construct a VM in virt-manager and attach the conv= erted qcow2 disk to it, and then use virt-v2v to import this into ovirt. =20 Can someone suggest an alternative course of action? It seems strange t= hat I can't just import a disk into ovirt, construct a VM and attach the di= sk. =20 Is there anything int he works to make this process easier? =20 Thanks, Paul =20 =20 =20 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users I have not found a way to import qcow2 disk into oVirt. =20 The last time I needed to import a qcow2 disk to oVirt I created a vm in a= kvm server (my pc..) with virt-manager, then I added the qcow disk, and boo= ted the vm with clonezilla. Then I created a VM in oVirt, provisioned with s= imilar disks and booted also with clonezilla. Then I cloned from kvm to oVir= t. After I deleted the native kvm vm and disks. In this way I bypassed all t= he import, export, ova compatibility, virt2virt, etc. =20 Simple and practical =20 Regards =20 =20
Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users =20 Wrote this awhile back as a quick qcow to ovf implementation to import int= o ovirt-engine/rhevm. There are newer options but this does the job really q= uick. Will wrap the qcow image into an exploded ova structure or zipped. You= can then import it directly into engine with engine-image-uploader. =20 https://jboggs.fedorapeople.org/guest-image-ovf-creator.py =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 https://jboggs.fedorapeople.org/guest-image-ovf-creator.py
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--Apple-Mail-78A8701D-01D3-40A6-855F-5AE2F9251156 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Just try throwing ideas out there... I actually use virtualbox tools to convert all my disks...</div><div>VBoxManage clonehd<br><br>Once converted to a raw image I use KVM to import to my storage and than v2v to import it to oVirt.</div><div>I have a small script I wrote that does this automatically for me....<br>I have converted .vdi, .vmdk, .qcow2, etc.... It has never fail me...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sent from iPhone</div><div><br>On Oct 21, 2014, at 2:38 PM, Joey Boggs <<a href="mailto:jboggs@redhat.com">jboggs@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/21/2014 11:23 AM, Federico Alberto Sayd wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:54467A7E.9070801@uncu.edu.ar" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/10/14 02:27, Paul Jansen wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:1413869259.71234.YahooMailNeo@web160305.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" type="cite"> <div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"> <div>I've just been doing some searching to try and work out how to get a vmware windows VM into ovirt.</div> <div>It seems that the newest virtv2v has dropped support for importing from an ESXi standalone machine - and now only works with vcenter. I didn't have any success with using the current virt-v2v attaching to an ESXi host.<br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I've prepared the VM by first removing the vmware tools and have installled the various virtio drivers, as well as running the 'mergeide' registry file to enable IDE. I've used 'qemu-img' to convirt this VMDK file to QCOW2. It does not appear that there is a straightforward way for me to import this new qcow2 disk into ovirt.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">It seems my best option at the moment is to export the VMware VM as an OVA and then try and use a newer virt-v2v to import this into ovirt.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Alternatively I could construct a VM in virt-manager and attach the converted qcow2 disk to it, and then use virt-v2v to import this into ovirt.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Can someone suggest an alternative course of action? It seems strange that I can't just import a disk into ovirt, construct a VM and attach the disk.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Is there anything int he works to make this process easier?</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Thanks,</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Paul</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br> </div> </div> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ Users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a> </pre> </blockquote> I have not found a way to import qcow2 disk into oVirt.<br> <br> The last time I needed to import a qcow2 disk to oVirt I created a vm in a kvm server (my pc..) with virt-manager, then I added the qcow disk, and booted the vm with clonezilla. Then I created a VM in oVirt, provisioned with similar disks and booted also with clonezilla. Then I cloned from kvm to oVirt. After I deleted the native kvm vm and disks. In this way I bypassed all the import, export, ova compatibility, virt2virt, etc.<br> <br> Simple and practical<br> <br> Regards<br> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ Users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a> </pre> </blockquote> <br> Wrote this awhile back as a quick qcow to ovf implementation to import into ovirt-engine/rhevm. There are newer options but this does the job really quick. Will wrap the qcow image into an exploded ova structure or zipped. You can then import it directly into engine with engine-image-uploader.<br> <br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://jboggs.fedorapeople.org/guest-image-ovf-creator.py">https://jboggs.fedorapeople.org/guest-image-ovf-creator.py</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://jboggs.fedorapeople.org/guest-image-ovf-creator.py">https://jboggs.fedorapeople.org/guest-image-ovf-creator.py</a><br> </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Users mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html> --Apple-Mail-78A8701D-01D3-40A6-855F-5AE2F9251156--