Export VM to ova or ovf format
Is there anyway to export a oVirt VM to an ova or ovf format. Right click export seems to be intended to transfer between oVirt storage domains. There is a project to setup a gui to do this but it's still in the planning stage. I've found various references that basically export it to an export domain and then you strip the disk or disks from it, create a VMware workstation VM, and then point it at the new disks you have. VMware's P2V converter is useless because it only converts Linux machines to an ESXi server which I don't have and once you do that it's another conversion to VMware Workstation. Guess nobody wants to run Linux on VMware workstation according to VMware. I'm trying to get some of my critical servers over to VMware Workstation on my Windows Physical box so when I upgrade oVirt I still have my basic network. I'm running a self-hosted Engine setup with only one Physical server at the moment. Thanks.
Hi, On Wed, 31 May 2017 18:14:53 -0400 Brett Holcomb <biholcomb@l1049h.com> wrote:
Is there anyway to export a oVirt VM to an ova or ovf format. Right click export seems to be intended to transfer between oVirt storage domains. There is a project to setup a gui to do this but it's still in the planning stage.
Yes, this is still work in progress. But it is intended only to simplify transfer of VMs between oVirt instances. It is not guaranteed that the OVA will work in VMware -- unless VMware produces a conversion tool or something.
I've found various references that basically export it to an export domain and then you strip the disk or disks from it,
Yes that is probably the only way right now. There should be also an OVF in the export domain -- inside master/vms directory. You can try to fix the paths to disks and pack it all together to produce an OVA. But than again, it's questionable whether such OVA will be importable to VMware. The OVF specification is too vague and too broad. It does not guarantee interoperability between various platforms.
create a VMware workstation VM, and then point it at the new disks you have. VMware's P2V converter is useless because it only converts Linux machines to an ESXi server which I don't have and once you do that it's another conversion to VMware Workstation. Guess nobody wants to run Linux on VMware workstation according to VMware. I'm trying to get some of my critical servers over to VMware Workstation on my Windows Physical box so when I upgrade oVirt I still have my basic network. I'm running a self-hosted Engine setup with only one Physical server at the moment.
Thanks.
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Thanks. I had hoped the ova/ovf spec was good enough that it worked both ways. I was originally running ESXi 6 on this hardware and then moved to oVirt 3.6. I did that by moving all the ESXi stuff to VMware Workstation and running it there. Once oVirt replaced ESXi I then exported from workstation and imported successfully to oVirt so it worked that way but VMware has no real interest in making other stuff importable to them. I did find out I can run ESXi in a VMware Workstation instance so if push comes to shove I can do that and do the VMware P2V to ESXi and then to Workstation. On 06/02/2017 07:42 AM, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 31 May 2017 18:14:53 -0400 Brett Holcomb <biholcomb@l1049h.com> wrote:
Is there anyway to export a oVirt VM to an ova or ovf format. Right click export seems to be intended to transfer between oVirt storage domains. There is a project to setup a gui to do this but it's still in the planning stage. Yes, this is still work in progress. But it is intended only to simplify transfer of VMs between oVirt instances. It is not guaranteed that the OVA will work in VMware -- unless VMware produces a conversion tool or something.
I've found various references that basically export it to an export domain and then you strip the disk or disks from it, Yes that is probably the only way right now. There should be also an OVF in the export domain -- inside master/vms directory. You can try to fix the paths to disks and pack it all together to produce an OVA.
But than again, it's questionable whether such OVA will be importable to VMware.
The OVF specification is too vague and too broad. It does not guarantee interoperability between various platforms.
create a VMware workstation VM, and then point it at the new disks you have. VMware's P2V converter is useless because it only converts Linux machines to an ESXi server which I don't have and once you do that it's another conversion to VMware Workstation. Guess nobody wants to run Linux on VMware workstation according to VMware. I'm trying to get some of my critical servers over to VMware Workstation on my Windows Physical box so when I upgrade oVirt I still have my basic network. I'm running a self-hosted Engine setup with only one Physical server at the moment.
Thanks.
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