3:41 a.m.
Hi,
I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it is possible to export an
existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If it's not possible via GUI,
is that possible at all?
Best Regards
Benjamin
6:34 a.m.
Hi Benjamin,
Unfortunately not.
We intend to make more use of the OVA format soon, we design this these
days.
May I ask what is the motivation in your case to export the VM as OVA?
Regards,
Arik
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery <
benjamin.alfery(a)linforge.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it is possible to export an
existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If it's not possible via GUI,
is that possible at all?
Best Regards
Benjamin
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Hello Arik,
Converting to an appliance (OVA) makes the VM portable. Works on
multiple hypervisor. VM migration and interoperability becomes
uncomplicated.
--
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Anantha Raghava
eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd.
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Hi Benjamin,
Unfortunately not.
We intend to make more use of the OVA format soon, we design this
these days.
May I ask what is the motivation in your case to export the VM as OVA?
Regards,
Arik
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery
<benjamin.alfery(a)linforge.com <mailto:benjamin.alfery@linforge.com>>
wrote:
Hi,
I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it is possible to export an
existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If it's not possible via GUI,
is that possible at all?
Best Regards
Benjamin
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<div>Hi Benjamin,</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Unfortunately not.</div>
<div>We intend to make more use of the OVA format soon, we
design this these days.</div>
<div>May I ask what is the motivation in your case to export the
VM as OVA?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Arik</div>
<div><br>
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<br>
I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it is possible to
export an<br>
existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If it's not
possible via GUI,<br>
is that possible at all?<br>
<br>
<br>
Best Regards<br>
Benjamin<br>
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Anantha Raghava <
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Hello Arik,
Converting to an appliance (OVA) makes the VM portable. Works on multiple
hypervisor. VM migration and interoperability becomes uncomplicated.
Thanks Anantha.
That's true only to some extent.
For example, without converting OVA that was generated by VMware using
virt-v2v oVirt cannot consume it since the VMDK disks format is not
supported in oVirt. Another example is the OVF representation that differs
among various virtualization management platforms.
So if you are trying to migrate a VM from oVirt to another platform and
assume you'll get this out-of-the-box by having an OVA that is generated by
oVirt, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed in case the target platform
doesn't support the format of the disks or doesn't know how to parse the
OVF that is generated by oVirt.
And there may be more use cases for exporting the VM as OVA, that's why I'm
interested to know what's the goal in this case :)
--
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Anantha Raghava eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd.
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On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:04 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
Hi Benjamin,
Unfortunately not.
We intend to make more use of the OVA format soon, we design this these
days.
May I ask what is the motivation in your case to export the VM as OVA?
Regards,
Arik
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery <
benjamin.alfery(a)linforge.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it is possible to export an
> existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If it's not possible via GUI,
> is that possible at all?
>
>
> Best Regards
> Benjamin
> _______________________________________________
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Hello Arik,
Interesting..
I was thinking that, by converting to OVA appliance, we can release our
product as appliance that will work on Xen, VMWare or KVM. Now OVA works
both on Xen and VMWare and both can be interchanged with each other.
Do you mean to say that both Xen and VMWare have written specific
parsers to convert the disk formats amongst each other.
Xen, I am talking about Citrix Xen.
--
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Anantha Raghava
eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd.
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On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:27 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Anantha Raghava
<raghav(a)exzatechconsulting.com <mailto:raghav@exzatechconsulting.com>>
wrote:
Hello Arik,
Converting to an appliance (OVA) makes the VM portable. Works on
multiple hypervisor. VM migration and interoperability becomes
uncomplicated.
Thanks Anantha.
That's true only to some extent.
For example, without converting OVA that was generated by VMware using
virt-v2v oVirt cannot consume it since the VMDK disks format is not
supported in oVirt. Another example is the OVF representation that
differs among various virtualization management platforms.
So if you are trying to migrate a VM from oVirt to another platform
and assume you'll get this out-of-the-box by having an OVA that is
generated by oVirt, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed in case the
target platform doesn't support the format of the disks or doesn't
know how to parse the OVF that is generated by oVirt.
And there may be more use cases for exporting the VM as OVA, that's
why I'm interested to know what's the goal in this case :)
--
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Anantha Raghava
eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd.
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On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:04 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> Unfortunately not.
> We intend to make more use of the OVA format soon, we design this
> these days.
> May I ask what is the motivation in your case to export the VM as
> OVA?
>
> Regards,
> Arik
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery
> <benjamin.alfery(a)linforge.com
> <mailto:benjamin.alfery@linforge.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it is possible to
> export an
> existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If it's not possible
> via GUI,
> is that possible at all?
>
>
> Best Regards
> Benjamin
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org>
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users>
>
>
>
>
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thinking that, by converting to OVA appliance, we can release
our product as appliance that will work on Xen, VMWare or KVM.
Now OVA works both on Xen and VMWare and both can be
interchanged with each other. <br>
</font></p>
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mean to say that both Xen and VMWare have written specific
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM,
Anantha Raghava <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:raghav@exzatechconsulting.com"
target="_blank">raghav(a)exzatechconsulting.com</a>&gt;</span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
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<p><font face="Liberation Serif">Hello
Arik,</font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Serif">Converting to an
appliance (OVA) makes the VM portable. Works on
multiple hypervisor. VM migration and
interoperability becomes uncomplicated.</font></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks Anantha.</div>
<div>That's true only to some extent.</div>
<div>For example, without converting OVA that was generated
by VMware using virt-v2v oVirt cannot consume it since the
VMDK disks format is not supported in oVirt. Another
example is the OVF representation that differs among
various virtualization management platforms.</div>
<div>So if you are trying to migrate a VM from oVirt to
another platform and assume you'll get this out-of-the-box
by having an OVA that is generated by oVirt, I'm afraid
you'll be disappointed in case the target platform doesn't
support the format of the disks or doesn't know how to
parse the OVF that is generated by oVirt.</div>
<div>And there may be more use cases for exporting the VM as
OVA, that's why I'm interested to know<span
style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> what's the goal
in this case</span> :)</div>
<div><br>
</div>
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Sunday 12 February 2017 06:04 PM, Arik Hadas
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">
<div>Hi Benjamin,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Unfortunately not.</div>
<div>We intend to make more use of the OVA
format soon, we design this these days.</div>
<div>May I ask what is the motivation in your
case to export the VM as OVA?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Arik</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at
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target="_blank">benjamin.alfery(a)linforge.com</a>&gt;</span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it
is possible to export an<br>
existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If
it's not possible via GUI,<br>
is that possible at all?<br>
<br>
<br>
Best Regards<br>
Benjamin<br>
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They must have written it - as we did,
OVA is representation of current hypervisor virtual machine, it contains
OVF which is xml representation of the VM and binary disk files, the files
are the format of the specific hypervisor (Xen, VMWare or KVM).
We currently convert from VMWare and Xen on Rhel (not Citrix).
The main issue is to convert the disk from one hypervisor to another, we
use qemu-img to convert to qcow2 or raw disk format.
Shahar.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:46 AM, Anantha Raghava <
raghav(a)exzatechconsulting.com> wrote:
Hello Arik,
Interesting..
I was thinking that, by converting to OVA appliance, we can release our
product as appliance that will work on Xen, VMWare or KVM. Now OVA works
both on Xen and VMWare and both can be interchanged with each other.
Do you mean to say that both Xen and VMWare have written specific parsers
to convert the disk formats amongst each other.
Xen, I am talking about Citrix Xen.
--
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On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:27 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Anantha Raghava <
raghav(a)exzatechconsulting.com> wrote:
> Hello Arik,
>
> Converting to an appliance (OVA) makes the VM portable. Works on multiple
> hypervisor. VM migration and interoperability becomes uncomplicated.
>
Thanks Anantha.
That's true only to some extent.
For example, without converting OVA that was generated by VMware using
virt-v2v oVirt cannot consume it since the VMDK disks format is not
supported in oVirt. Another example is the OVF representation that differs
among various virtualization management platforms.
So if you are trying to migrate a VM from oVirt to another platform and
assume you'll get this out-of-the-box by having an OVA that is generated by
oVirt, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed in case the target platform
doesn't support the format of the disks or doesn't know how to parse the
OVF that is generated by oVirt.
And there may be more use cases for exporting the VM as OVA, that's why
I'm interested to know what's the goal in this case :)
> --
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
>
> Anantha Raghava eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd.
>
> Do not print this e-mail unless required. Save Paper & trees.
> On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:04 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
>
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> Unfortunately not.
> We intend to make more use of the OVA format soon, we design this these
> days.
> May I ask what is the motivation in your case to export the VM as OVA?
>
> Regards,
> Arik
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery <
> benjamin.alfery(a)linforge.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it is possible to export an
>> existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If it's not possible via GUI,
>> is that possible at all?
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Benjamin
>> _______________________________________________
>> Users mailing list
>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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>
>
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Hi,
Shahar Havivi <shavivi(a)redhat.com> writes:
They must have written it - as we did,
OVA is representation of current hypervisor virtual machine, it contains OVF
which is xml representation of the VM and binary disk files, the files are the
format of the specific hypervisor (Xen, VMWare or KVM).
We currently convert from VMWare and Xen on Rhel (not Citrix).
The main issue is to convert the disk from one hypervisor to another, we use
qemu-img to convert to qcow2 or raw disk format.
Can virt-v2v convert back from ovirt format to VMware format?
Shahar.
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3:23 p.m.
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:23:04 -0500
Derek Atkins <derek(a)ihtfp.com> wrote:
Hi,
Shahar Havivi <shavivi(a)redhat.com> writes:
> They must have written it - as we did,
> OVA is representation of current hypervisor virtual machine, it contains OVF
> which is xml representation of the VM and binary disk files, the files are the
> format of the specific hypervisor (Xen, VMWare or KVM).
> We currently convert from VMWare and Xen on Rhel (not Citrix).
> The main issue is to convert the disk from one hypervisor to another, we use
> qemu-img to convert to qcow2 or raw disk format.
Can virt-v2v convert back from ovirt format to VMware format?
If you're asking about VM conversion then the answer is no. virt-v2v
converts only to KVM, not the other way around.
If you're asking about the disks then the question is incorrect. The
right tool for this kind of operation is qemu-img. And yes, it can
convert from raw/QCow2 to VMDK.
Tomas
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9:31 a.m.
Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi(a)redhat.com> writes:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:23:04 -0500
Derek Atkins <derek(a)ihtfp.com> wrote:
> Can virt-v2v convert back from ovirt format to VMware format?
If you're asking about VM conversion then the answer is no. virt-v2v
converts only to KVM, not the other way around.
Oh, that's too bad. I wonder how hard it would be to add that?
Is there any way to take a VM from ovirt and migrate it to VMware?
If you're asking about the disks then the question is incorrect.
The
right tool for this kind of operation is qemu-img. And yes, it can
convert from raw/QCow2 to VMDK.
Converting a disk is only part of the issue! I need to perform the same
operations virt-v2v does to convert from VMware to ovirt, but do it in
reverse.
Tomas
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5:04 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:31:49AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi(a)redhat.com> writes:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:23:04 -0500
> Derek Atkins <derek(a)ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
>> Can virt-v2v convert back from ovirt format to VMware format?
>
> If you're asking about VM conversion then the answer is no. virt-v2v
> converts only to KVM, not the other way around.
Oh, that's too bad. I wonder how hard it would be to add that?
It's not something that we'd do for virt-v2v. It's hard enough
converting VMs to work on KVM as it is, and virt-v2v is a tool
designed to make it easier to convert to KVM only.
Is there any way to take a VM from ovirt and migrate it to VMware?
> If you're asking about the disks then the question is incorrect. The
> right tool for this kind of operation is qemu-img. And yes, it can
> convert from raw/QCow2 to VMDK.
Converting a disk is only part of the issue! I need to perform the same
operations virt-v2v does to convert from VMware to ovirt, but do it in
reverse.
Good luck! If new drivers have to be installed, then that is a hard
problem. As discussed above, virt-v2v only solves that in the KVM
direction. However if the guest only depends on basic devices (IDE,
RTL8139 network card, standard VGA), then it may just run on any
hypervisor.
Rich.
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8:36 a.m.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:46 AM, Anantha Raghava <
raghav(a)exzatechconsulting.com> wrote:
Hello Arik,
Interesting..
I was thinking that, by converting to OVA appliance, we can release our
product as appliance that will work on Xen, VMWare or KVM. Now OVA works
both on Xen and VMWare and both can be interchanged with each other.
Do you mean to say that both Xen and VMWare have written specific parsers
to convert the disk formats amongst each other.
It's not just disk format - imagine the network interface driver - the PV
Xen NIC driver vs. vmxnet3 (or however it's called) in VMware. Most of the
HW devices are different as well.
Y.
Xen, I am talking about Citrix Xen.
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On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:27 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Anantha Raghava <
raghav(a)exzatechconsulting.com> wrote:
> Hello Arik,
>
> Converting to an appliance (OVA) makes the VM portable. Works on multiple
> hypervisor. VM migration and interoperability becomes uncomplicated.
>
Thanks Anantha.
That's true only to some extent.
For example, without converting OVA that was generated by VMware using
virt-v2v oVirt cannot consume it since the VMDK disks format is not
supported in oVirt. Another example is the OVF representation that differs
among various virtualization management platforms.
So if you are trying to migrate a VM from oVirt to another platform and
assume you'll get this out-of-the-box by having an OVA that is generated by
oVirt, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed in case the target platform
doesn't support the format of the disks or doesn't know how to parse the
OVF that is generated by oVirt.
And there may be more use cases for exporting the VM as OVA, that's why
I'm interested to know what's the goal in this case :)
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> On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:04 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
>
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> Unfortunately not.
> We intend to make more use of the OVA format soon, we design this these
> days.
> May I ask what is the motivation in your case to export the VM as OVA?
>
> Regards,
> Arik
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery <
> benjamin.alfery(a)linforge.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it is possible to export an
>> existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If it's not possible via GUI,
>> is that possible at all?
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Benjamin
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