Forgive my noobness, but are you telling me that I can convert an ESX image without the existence of a running ESX server? If someone gave me an ESX image on a DVD or hard drive I could then use virt-v2v to convert it? -----Original Message----- From: Bob Doolittle [mailto:bob@doolittle.us.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:54 PM To: Maurice James; 'Ted Miller'; users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion Yes. So: VMware non-ESX -> ESX, using VMware's tool, then ESX -> RHEV using virt-v2v no? If this is viable, it's easy to understand why nobody wants to put effort into supporting a bevy of VMware VM formats, when there's a tool already available to convert to one and they can focus on it. -Bob On 02/19/2014 05:52 PM, Maurice James wrote:
I want to change it from VMware to RHEV/oVirt
-----Original Message----- From: Bob Doolittle [mailto:bob@doolittle.us.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:51 PM To: Maurice James; 'Ted Miller'; users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
My recollection is that VMware provides a converter to change your VMware non-ESX VMs into ESX format. Do you have to buy ESX to gain access to it?
-Bob
On 02/19/2014 05:46 PM, Maurice James wrote:
I even open a feature request that they closed pretty quickly with WONTFIX https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062910 . Why is this such a touchy issue?
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Ted Miller Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:28 PM To: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
On 2/9/2014 4:27 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 02/09/2014 10:28 PM, Maurice James wrote:
The instructions assume that I have an ESX instance to connect to. How do I do this with an already exported vmware image with no esx available to connect to? I have a turnkey drupal vm in ovf format
-----Original Message----- From: Itamar Heim [mailto:iheim@redhat.com] Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 2:24 PM To: Maurice James; 'users' Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
According to this https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1749.html It does not do it
On 02/09/2014 07:02 PM, Maurice James wrote: please review: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterpri s e _Virtua lization/3.3/html-single/V2V_Guide/index.html
-----Original Message----- From: Itamar Heim [mailto:iheim@redhat.com] Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 4:52 AM To: Maurice James; 'users' Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
On 02/08/2014 04:18 PM, Maurice James wrote:
I submitted an RFE to have vmware image conversion added to 3.5. I think that is a key feature that is lacking. Im just trying to get some eyes on it here.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062910
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can you comment on the gaps from virt-v2v which does this today (in the bug as well).
thanks, Itamar
iirc, you need an ESX currently. Some of us are stuck without a way to try out ovirt because of this. ESX is not the only platform that people run VMWare on. I am trying to bring over VMs from an old VMWare Server setup on Centos 5. Works fine, but there is no migration path. Other people may have VMs on VMWare Workstation or other, older products. We just get told to go fly a kite? If the only choice is to bring up a full-blown, working ESX instance, I may bring up ESXi and stay there.
Ted Miller Elkhart, IN
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