Re: [ovirt-users] Export VM to ova or ovf format
Thanks. I had hoped the ova/ovf spec was good enough that it worked
both ways. I was originally running ESXi 6 on this hardware and then
moved to oVirt 3.6. I did that by moving all the ESXi stuff to VMware
Workstation and running it there. Once oVirt replaced ESXi I then
exported from workstation and imported successfully to oVirt so it
worked that way but VMware has no real interest in making other stuff
importable to them.
I did find out I can run ESXi in a VMware Workstation instance so if
push comes to shove I can do that and do the VMware P2V to ESXi and then to
Workstation.
On 06/02/2017 07:42 AM, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 31 May 2017 18:14:53 -0400
Brett Holcomb <biholcomb(a)l1049h.com> wrote:
> Is there anyway to export a oVirt VM to an ova or ovf format. Right
> click export seems to be intended to transfer between oVirt storage
> domains. There is a project to setup a gui to do this but it's still in
> the planning stage.
Yes, this is still work in progress. But it is intended only to simplify
transfer of VMs between oVirt instances. It is not guaranteed that the OVA
will work in VMware -- unless VMware produces a conversion tool or
something.
> I've found various references that basically export
> it to an export domain and then you strip the disk or disks from it,
Yes that is probably the only way right now. There should be also an OVF
in the export domain -- inside master/vms directory. You can try to
fix the paths to disks and pack it all together to produce an OVA.
But than again, it's questionable whether such OVA will be importable to
VMware.
The OVF specification is too vague and too broad. It does not guarantee
interoperability between various platforms.
> create a VMware workstation VM, and then point it at the new disks you
> have. VMware's P2V converter is useless because it only converts Linux
> machines to an ESXi server which I don't have and once you do that it's
> another conversion to VMware Workstation. Guess nobody wants to run
> Linux on VMware workstation according to VMware. I'm trying to get some
> of my critical servers over to VMware Workstation on my Windows Physical
> box so when I upgrade oVirt I still have my basic network. I'm running
> a self-hosted Engine setup with only one Physical server at the moment.
>
> Thanks.
>
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