On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Bond, Darryl <dbond@nrggos.com.au> wrote:

Is there a recommended way to import a VM from Vmware into oVirt with Cinder back end?

I have successfully created an image in the oVirt Import domain using virt-v2v. The image can be imported into NFS storage and works fine.

I can create new VMs with disks in the Cinder storage.

There does not seem to be any way of either:

a) Import directly into the cinder storage (regardless if the import has raw or qcow disks

virt-v2v may support this, as it is using qemu-img under the hood, but I guess we miss

the integration, passing the needed info from engine and accepting it in virt-v2v.

(Adding Shahar)

b) Move a disk from NFS storage into cinder

Correct, this is not supported yet with cinder/ceph disks.

Maybe you can do this manually:

- Import vm using v2v to nfs

- Create cinder/ceph volume in the correct size

- Copy the imported disk using "qemu-img convert" to the ceph volume

ceph disks are used as "rbd:poolname/volumename"

you also have to specify cephx auth, or copy ceph keyring to /etc/ceph/

- Detach the imported disk from the vm

- Attach the cinder/ceph disk to the vm

This work is planned for next version.

Nir