Error importing Windows Server 2016 VMs from vCenter 6.5

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On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Matthew Hoberg <housemouse@squeakz.net> wrote:
I am trying to import VMs from VMware 6.5 into oVirt 4.2 and it is failing. The only message I get in the Engine interface is that it failed to convert. All my 2016 VMs are running in EFI mode. I built a fresh 2016 VM in MBR mode and that imported fine. VMware is a 2 host cluster running vCenter. oVirt 4.2 is a 2 host cluster running a hosted engine. Both clusters connect to iSCSI datastores. Is there anything else I have to do to be able to import an EFI based VM?
~Matt
hello, I see this bug still in "New" status, for general feature of booting VM via EFI, so I think it could be related with your conversion problems: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1327846 You can add comments there to speed up enabling it, perhaps Gianluca

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Matthew Hoberg <housemouse@squeakz.net> wrote:
I am trying to import VMs from VMware 6.5 into oVirt 4.2 and it is failing. The only message I get in the Engine interface is that it failed to convert. All my 2016 VMs are running in EFI mode. I built a fresh 2016 VM in MBR mode and that imported fine. VMware is a 2 host cluster running vCenter. oVirt 4.2 is a 2 host cluster running a hosted engine. Both clusters connect to iSCSI datastores. Is there anything else I have to do to be able to import an EFI based VM?
~Matt
hello, I see this bug still in "New" status, for general feature of booting VM via EFI, so I think it could be related with your conversion problems: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1327846 You can add comments there to speed up enabling it, perhaps
And virt-v2v has to support this conversion as well. Y.
Gianluca
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