Need to import a template in OVA format
I have a template designed for VMware VMs, in OVA format. Is there a way I can import this template to oVirt, in order to create an oVirt VM from it? virt-v2v seems designed to import VMs, not templates, and it whines about no storage devices in the Guest (when using "-i ova -o rhev -os <NFS_PATH_TO_EXPORT_DOMAIN>"). Thanks, Bob P.S. If of interest, the OVA tarball contains foo.ovf, foo.mf, and system.vmdk.
On 08/29/2014 06:38 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
I have a template designed for VMware VMs, in OVA format.
Is there a way I can import this template to oVirt, in order to create an oVirt VM from it?
virt-v2v seems designed to import VMs, not templates, and it whines about no storage devices in the Guest (when using "-i ova -o rhev -os <NFS_PATH_TO_EXPORT_DOMAIN>").
Thanks, Bob
P.S. If of interest, the OVA tarball contains foo.ovf, foo.mf, and system.vmdk.
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how is a tempalte different than a VM in VMWare land? in ovirt its: - not having snapshots - a notation on the ovf
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 06:07:47PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 08/29/2014 06:38 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
I have a template designed for VMware VMs, in OVA format.
Is there a way I can import this template to oVirt, in order to create an oVirt VM from it?
virt-v2v seems designed to import VMs, not templates, and it whines about no storage devices in the Guest (when using "-i ova -o rhev -os <NFS_PATH_TO_EXPORT_DOMAIN>").
I guess we're talking about old virt-v2v here? Shahar is writing a new OVA importer at the moment.
Thanks, Bob
P.S. If of interest, the OVA tarball contains foo.ovf, foo.mf, and system.vmdk.
how is a tempalte different than a VM in VMWare land? in ovirt its: - not having snapshots - a notation on the ovf
Matt any idea? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
On 08/31/2014 01:16 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 06:07:47PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 08/29/2014 06:38 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>> I have a template designed for VMware VMs, in OVA format.
>>>
>>> Is there a way I can import this template to oVirt, in order to create
>>> an oVirt VM from it?
>>>
>>> virt-v2v seems designed to import VMs, not templates, and it whines
>>> about no storage devices in the Guest (when using "-i ova -o rhev -os
>>> <NFS_PATH_TO_EXPORT_DOMAIN>").
> I guess we're talking about old virt-v2v here?
> Shahar is writing a new OVA importer at the moment.
Well that's the thing. I saw many old e-mails about issues, and that the
ova option was withdrawn because of them. But I'm running F20 and it
claims to support the ova option so I presumed it had been reintroduced
and fixed. Not so much?
The version I am running is virt-v2v-0.9.0-5.fc20.x86_64
Thanks,
Bob
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bob
>>>
>>> P.S. If of interest, the OVA tarball contains foo.ovf, foo.mf, and
>>> system.vmdk.
>> how is a tempalte different than a VM in VMWare land?
>> in ovirt its:
>> - not having snapshots
>> - a notation on the ovf
> Matt any idea?
>
> Rich.
>
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 04:19:20PM -0400, Bob Doolittle wrote:
The version I am running is virt-v2v-0.9.0-5.fc20.x86_64
The new version is 1.27.x and it is available in Fedora 21 and above. HOWEVER it doesn't support OVA yet -- still being written. I'm also providing preview RPMs for RHEL 7 & CentOS 7: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-May/msg00090.html (also without OVA import support right now, but will have it real soon) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html
On 31/08/14 18:16, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 06:07:47PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 08/29/2014 06:38 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
I have a template designed for VMware VMs, in OVA format.
Is there a way I can import this template to oVirt, in order to create an oVirt VM from it?
virt-v2v seems designed to import VMs, not templates, and it whines about no storage devices in the Guest (when using "-i ova -o rhev -os <NFS_PATH_TO_EXPORT_DOMAIN>").
I guess we're talking about old virt-v2v here? Shahar is writing a new OVA importer at the moment.
Thanks, Bob
P.S. If of interest, the OVA tarball contains foo.ovf, foo.mf, and system.vmdk.
how is a tempalte different than a VM in VMWare land? in ovirt its: - not having snapshots - a notation on the ovf
Matt any idea?
I've never looked in detail, but my understanding is that they're essentially identical, and that a template just has a flag set on it to mark it as a template. Please don't take that as gospel, though. Matt -- Matthew Booth Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team Phone: +442070094448 (UK) GPG ID: D33C3490 GPG FPR: 3733 612D 2D05 5458 8A8A 1600 3441 EA19 D33C 3490
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