Need to transfer a VM from oVirt to vSphere
Hello, I need to transfer a VM from oVirt 4.4 to vSphere. I see that the "Export as OVA" in the GUI exports in a format compatible with oVirt but not vSphere. Any hint? Any way to easily convert the oVirt generated OVA to a vSPhere compatible one? Thanks, Gianluca
On 24. 6. 2022, at 11:58, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, I need to transfer a VM from oVirt 4.4 to vSphere. I see that the "Export as OVA" in the GUI exports in a format compatible with oVirt but not vSphere. Any hint? Any way to easily convert the oVirt generated OVA to a vSPhere compatible one?
not that i know of. it depends on how resilient is vmware's ova import ... but if it is a single or a few vms then you can give up on settings and just import raw disks?
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I have done this before quite a few times. What I did was: 1. Export the qcow2 or raw file and convert it: qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk 2. Import the vmdk into vsphere storage and convert it to thin with vmkfstools 3. Then create the vm definition. 4. There will be some minor driver and ethernet type stuff to fix. This process has worked everytime. You probably could use a tool like virt v2v or veeam to accomplish this as well. David ________________________________ From: Michal Skrivanek <mskrivan@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2022 10:33 AM To: Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> Cc: users <users@ovirt.org> Subject: [External]: [ovirt-users] Re: Need to transfer a VM from oVirt to vSphere [The sender of this email is external to Mueller Roofing Distributors.]
On 24. 6. 2022, at 11:58, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, I need to transfer a VM from oVirt 4.4 to vSphere. I see that the "Export as OVA" in the GUI exports in a format compatible with oVirt but not vSphere. Any hint? Any way to easily convert the oVirt generated OVA to a vSPhere compatible one?
not that i know of. it depends on how resilient is vmware's ova import ... but if it is a single or a few vms then you can give up on settings and just import raw disks?
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 4:33 PM Michal Skrivanek <mskrivan@redhat.com> wrote:
On 24. 6. 2022, at 11:58, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, I need to transfer a VM from oVirt 4.4 to vSphere. I see that the "Export as OVA" in the GUI exports in a format compatible with oVirt but not vSphere. Any hint? Any way to easily convert the oVirt generated OVA to a vSPhere compatible one?
not that i know of. it depends on how resilient is vmware's ova import ... but if it is a single or a few vms then you can give up on settings and just import raw disks?
Ok, in fact I went sort of that way. Simple VM with RH EL 8.5 and only one 10Gb boot disk that worked as the quorum device host of a rhel 8 cluster. More in detail, if it can be of any help for others: . Creation on vSphere of a rhel7 VM (no choice of rhel8 because it is currently on 6.5) without disks and with paravirtual controller . On the source rhel8 oVirt VM, update of initramfs, adding the vmw_pvscsi kernel driver cd /boot cp -p initramfs-$(uname -r).img initramfs-$(uname -r).img.orig dracut --force --kver $(uname -r) --add-drivers vmw_pvscsi /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img . export VM as OVA on oVirt . extract virtual disk from OVA (tar -xf qdevice.ova) . convert virtual disk into vmdk format (done on a Fedora36 workstation with qemu-img-6.2.0-12.fc36.x86_64) qemu-img convert -O vmdk 3750043c-100c-42e6-8bd5-2cff2f81ee79 qdevice1.vmdk . upload of qdevice1.vmdk to the ESXi server from vSphere Web Client, inside the target VM directory of the related datastore . connect via ssh to ESXi server and further convert the file to a more "acceptable" vmdk format cd /vmfs/volumes/vmfslocal-myesxi-2TB/qdevice vmkfstools -i qdevice1.vmdk qdevice.vmdk see here: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1028943 I got "Unsupported and/or invalid disk type 2" when booting, without this further conversion step . removal of qdevice1.vmdk from vSphere Web Client interface . From vSphere Web Client Add existing disk to the VM, using the newly converted disk (qdevice.vmdk) . boot VM (with cluster related services disabled) . customizations such as network reconfiguration (due to network hw change) and VMware Tools guest managed install dnf install open-vm-tools systemctl enable vmtoolsd --now In my case I didn't have qemu-guest-agent service enabled in the VM, otherwise I should have disabled it too Enablement of cluster related services systemctl enable corosync-qnetd systemctl enable pcsd reboot . At the end the 2-nodes rhel8 cluster automatically reconnects without problems to the quorum device host Gianluca
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Michal Skrivanek