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
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@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@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------CB37C84C87BCBBC7694708D1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Arik, Converting to an appliance (OVA) makes the VM portable. Works on multiple hypervisor. VM migration and interoperability becomes uncomplicated. -- 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@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@ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users>
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
--------------CB37C84C87BCBBC7694708D1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <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><br> </p> <div class="moz-signature"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title></title> <meta name="generator" content="LibreOffice 5.0.3.2 (Linux)"> <meta name="created" content="00:00:00"> <meta name="changedby" content="Anantha Raghava"> <meta name="changed" content="2016-01-05T17:20:50.677541300"> <meta name="created" content="00:00:00"> <meta name="changedby" content="Anantha Raghava"> <meta name="changed" content="2015-12-20T09:03:26.251763811"> <meta name="created" content="2015-02-21T00:00:00"> <meta name="changedby" content="Anantha Raghava"> <meta name="changed" content="2015-12-20T09:02:11.666821134"> <style type="text/css"> @page { margin: 2cm } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; color: #000000; line-height: 120% } address { color: #000000 } a:link { so-language: zxx } </style> <p>-- </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Thanks & Regards,</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><br> </p> <address style="line-height: 100%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Anantha Raghava</font></address> <address style="line-height: 100%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd.</font></address> <br> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><font color="#66cc00"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Do not print this e-mail unless required. Save Paper & trees.</font></font></p> </div> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:04 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAMCgCFGPKp7EOr1rWu9dc=x59Je4UTPNtEshq1zgsCe8nNza2A@mail.gmail.com" 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> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:benjamin.alfery@linforge.com" target="_blank">benjamin.alfery@linforge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc 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> ______________________________<wbr>_________________<br> Users mailing list<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a><br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.ovirt.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/users</a><br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ Users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a> </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------CB37C84C87BCBBC7694708D1--
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Anantha Raghava < 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 :)
--
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@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@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing listUsers@ovirt.orghttp://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------9D231EF15E9265A5E67F167C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. -- 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 06:27 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Anantha Raghava <raghav@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 :)
--
Thanks & Regards,
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@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@ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users>
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users>
--------------9D231EF15E9265A5E67F167C Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <p><font face="Liberation Serif">Hello Arik,</font></p> <p><font face="Liberation Serif">Interesting..</font><br> </p> <div class="moz-signature"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title></title> <meta name="generator" content="LibreOffice 5.0.3.2 (Linux)"> <meta name="created" content="00:00:00"> <meta name="changedby" content="Anantha Raghava"> <meta name="changed" content="2016-01-05T17:20:50.677541300"> <meta name="created" content="00:00:00"> <meta name="changedby" content="Anantha Raghava"> <meta name="changed" content="2015-12-20T09:03:26.251763811"> <meta name="created" content="2015-02-21T00:00:00"> <meta name="changedby" content="Anantha Raghava"> <meta name="changed" content="2015-12-20T09:02:11.666821134"> <style type="text/css"> @page { margin: 2cm } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; color: #000000; line-height: 120% } address { color: #000000 } a:link { so-language: zxx } </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Liberation Serif">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. <br> </font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Liberation Serif">Do you mean to say that both Xen and VMWare have written specific parsers to convert the disk formats amongst each other.</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Liberation Serif">Xen, I am talking about Citrix Xen.<br> </font></p> <p>--</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Thanks & Regards,</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><br> </p> <address style="line-height: 100%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Anantha Raghava</font></address> <address style="line-height: 100%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd.</font></address> <br> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><font color="#66cc00"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Do not print this e-mail unless required. Save Paper & trees.</font></font></p> </div> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:27 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAMCgCFE=jM_sRP2VPHjPX0iBkOiC4a_rL=0NwFjeTmt8UtguXg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"><br> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <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@exzatechconsulting.com</a>></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"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <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> <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"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p><br> </p> <div class="gmail-m_-623731468079987731moz-signature"> <p>-- </p> <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Thanks & Regards,</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><br> </p> <address style="line-height:100%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Anantha Raghava</font></address> <address style="line-height:100%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd.</font></address> <br> <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font color="#66cc00"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Do not print this e-mail unless required. Save Paper & trees.</font></font></p> </div> <div> <div class="gmail-h5"> <div class="gmail-m_-623731468079987731moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:04 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:<br> </div> <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> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:benjamin.alfery@linforge.com" target="_blank">benjamin.alfery@linforge.com</a>></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> ______________________________<wbr>_________________<br> Users mailing list<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" target="_blank">Users@ovirt.org</a><br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman<wbr>/listinfo/users</a><br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> <br> <fieldset class="gmail-m_-623731468079987731mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre>______________________________<wbr>_________________ Users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="gmail-m_-623731468079987731moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" target="_blank">Users@ovirt.org</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="gmail-m_-623731468079987731moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://lists.ovirt.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/users</a> </pre> </blockquote> </div></div></div> </blockquote></div> </div></div> </blockquote> </body></html> --------------9D231EF15E9265A5E67F167C--
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@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.
--
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 06:27 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Anantha Raghava < 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 :)
--
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@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@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing listUsers@ovirt.orghttp://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Hi, Shahar Havivi <shavivi@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.
-derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 derek@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:23:04 -0500 Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> wrote:
Hi,
Shahar Havivi <shavivi@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 -- Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@redhat.com>
Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@redhat.com> writes:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:23:04 -0500 Derek Atkins <derek@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
-derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 derek@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:31:49AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@redhat.com> writes:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:23:04 -0500 Derek Atkins <derek@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. -- 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 Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:46 AM, Anantha Raghava < raghav@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.
--
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 06:27 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Anantha Raghava < 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.
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@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?
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