On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Ted Miller wrote:
* BEAT HEAD AGAINST WALL because virt-v2v.x86_64 0.9.1-5.el6_5 from Centos updates doesn't seem to know about .ova files. I was following the instructions in Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization-3.3-Beta-V2V_Guide-en-US.pdf guide, but I figured out that the v2v they are talking about has an "-i ova" option, while the help file for the version I am using does not list ova as an option for -i, and if I try to use it, it tells me that it is an invalid option, and if I leave it off it goes off looking for a qemu///system to attach to. help files for v2v say nothing at all about .ova files.
I am wondering where to find a v2v program that knows about .ova files, or else am I going to have to import all my VMWare files to my (non-ovirt) KVM host, and then drag them into ovirt from libvirt?
I made a bit of research about this Strange.... I just update a CentOS 6.4 VM to latest 6.5 and see that there (also matching RHEL 6.5 I think) there is indeed as you wrote: virt-v2v-0.9.1-5.el6_5.x86_64 And it seems ova is missing as an option... Instead on a Fedora 19 system with virt-v2v-0.9.0-3.fc19.x86_64 I have it.... So for any reason was it removed in newer packages? It seems also strange to see a Fedora package (even if 19 and not 20) older than a RH EL 6 one ... RHEL 6 version bumped this way skipping 0.9.0: * Wed Jun 12 2013 Matthew Booth <mbooth@redhat.com> - 0.9.1-1 - Rebase to new upstream release * Mon Oct 22 2012 Matthew Booth <mbooth@redhat.com> - 0.8.9-2 while fedora 19 has been currently stopped at * Wed Jul 03 2013 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 0.9.0-3 - Default to using the appliance backend, since in Fedora >= 18 the libvirt backend doesn't support the 'iface' parameter which virt-v2v requires. - Add BR perl(Sys::Syslog), required to run the tests. - Remove some cruft from the spec file. BTW in F20 we do have ova too: virt-v2v-0.9.0-5.fc20.x86_64 and in fact it has the older version... For RHEL 6 I remained here: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-May/014457.html ANd no particular virt-v2v package in rhev source repo http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHEV/SRPMS/ For sure the rhev 3.3 beta guide is incorrect at the moment https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtua... because it says " virt-v2v is available on Red Hat Network (RHN) in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v.6 for 64-bit x86_64) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v.6 for x86_64) channel. Ensure the system is subscribed to the appropriate channel before installing virt-v2v. " and some lines below " 7.1. virt-v2v Parameters The following parameters can be used with virt-v2v: -i input Specifies the input method to obtain the guest for conversion. The default is libvirt. Supported options are: libvirt Guest argument is the name of a libvirt domain. libvirtxml Guest argument is the path to an XML file containing a libvirt domain. ova " Any light to shed on this? Thanks Gianluca