On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 6:10 AM, Shao-Da Huang <sdhuang32(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi Arik, > > I'm Michael, an oVirt user from Taiwan, and I'm trying to import OVAs > produced by VMware into my data center. > I've tried the functionality in the 'Virtual Machine' tab -> Import -> > Source 'VMware Virtual Appliance (OVA)', but I wanna know that is there a > corresponding REST API so I can use it to automate this procedure? > > I found the > POST /externalvmimports API, > but it seems not to be used for OVA. > Hi Michael, You can import an OVA via REST-API using that post command. Let's say that you would like to import an OVA that is located in /home/user/vm.ova on host 'myhost' then you should set the host to 'myhost', the URL to 'ova:///home/user/vm.ova' and the provider to VMware. Please let me know if that did the trick.

Btw, any reason not to send this to the users-list?

> the same goal as in the engine UI? > > Could you give me some advices? >