Problems With VMWare Import
Hi Everyone, This doesn't seem to be a bug in oVirt so much as in the libvirt/virt-v2v tool it uses for importing, but I figured someone here might have run into this issue before. I'm trying to import some VMs from my VMWare cluster and it's failing with a "file not found" when trying to download the disk images. I have files in the datastore like: systest-55-000001-delta.vmdk 4G systest-55-000001.vmdk 1K systest-55-Snapshot1.vmsn 4G systest-55-flat.vmdk 40G systest-55.vmdk 1K ... bunch more small .vm?? files For some reason virt-v2v is trying to download a file called systest-55-000001-flat.vmdk which doesn't exist. I'm assuming this has something to do with the snapshots stored in the folder... Does anyone know a way to deal with that? Can I just delete the snapshots or is that going to delete data stored on the VM since the last snapshot? I'm using virt-v2v 1.28.1 if that makes a difference.
Hi Can you please try do delete source VMware VM snapshot and then try to import it? There is known issue for importing VMware VM with snapshot: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172425 - [RFE]virt-v2v failed to convert VMware ESX VM with snapshot Thanks Nisim Simsolo QE -Testing Engineer IRC: nsimsolo int phone - 8272305 mobile - 054-4779934 ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Charles Tassell" <ctassell@gmail.com> | To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> | Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 9:53:10 PM | Subject: [ovirt-users] Problems With VMWare Import | | Hi Everyone, | | This doesn't seem to be a bug in oVirt so much as in the | libvirt/virt-v2v tool it uses for importing, but I figured someone here | might have run into this issue before. I'm trying to import some VMs | from my VMWare cluster and it's failing with a "file not found" when | trying to download the disk images. I have files in the datastore like: | | systest-55-000001-delta.vmdk 4G | systest-55-000001.vmdk 1K | systest-55-Snapshot1.vmsn 4G | systest-55-flat.vmdk 40G | systest-55.vmdk 1K | ... bunch more small .vm?? files | | For some reason virt-v2v is trying to download a file called | systest-55-000001-flat.vmdk which doesn't exist. I'm assuming this has | something to do with the snapshots stored in the folder... Does anyone | know a way to deal with that? Can I just delete the snapshots or is | that going to delete data stored on the VM since the last snapshot? I'm | using virt-v2v 1.28.1 if that makes a difference. | | _______________________________________________ | Users mailing list | Users@ovirt.org | http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users |
Ah, that's a bit of a bummer but I guess I can use the p2v conversion for those instances. I tried to convert another VM (this one without a snapshot) and got the error "virt-v2v is unable to convert this guest type" I'm guessing that the problem is that our VMWare VM's are an the v10 format, as I know a lot of tools have issue dealing with the newer format. On 16-03-31 05:51 AM, Nisim Simsolo wrote:
Hi
Can you please try do delete source VMware VM snapshot and then try to import it? There is known issue for importing VMware VM with snapshot: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172425 - [RFE]virt-v2v failed to convert VMware ESX VM with snapshot
Thanks
Nisim Simsolo QE -Testing Engineer IRC: nsimsolo int phone - 8272305 mobile - 054-4779934
----- Original Message ----- | From: "Charles Tassell" <ctassell@gmail.com> | To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> | Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 9:53:10 PM | Subject: [ovirt-users] Problems With VMWare Import | | Hi Everyone, | | This doesn't seem to be a bug in oVirt so much as in the | libvirt/virt-v2v tool it uses for importing, but I figured someone here | might have run into this issue before. I'm trying to import some VMs | from my VMWare cluster and it's failing with a "file not found" when | trying to download the disk images. I have files in the datastore like: | | systest-55-000001-delta.vmdk 4G | systest-55-000001.vmdk 1K | systest-55-Snapshot1.vmsn 4G | systest-55-flat.vmdk 40G | systest-55.vmdk 1K | ... bunch more small .vm?? files | | For some reason virt-v2v is trying to download a file called | systest-55-000001-flat.vmdk which doesn't exist. I'm assuming this has | something to do with the snapshots stored in the folder... Does anyone | know a way to deal with that? Can I just delete the snapshots or is | that going to delete data stored on the VM since the last snapshot? I'm | using virt-v2v 1.28.1 if that makes a difference. | | _______________________________________________ | Users mailing list | Users@ovirt.org | http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users |
Actually, I guess I can't: p2v doesn't work either (it hangs because when it ssh's to the oVirt host and tries to run virsh there is a password prompt which it apparently can't deal with.) Has anyone successfully imported a VM from a recent version of VMWare (ie 5.5 or later) into oVirt? Is there any documentation on how to do so? I suppose I could just use something like CloneZilla to do it, but that seems like a bit of a pain, especially since we have about 50 VMs to move... On 16-03-31 09:11 PM, Charles Tassell wrote:
Ah, that's a bit of a bummer but I guess I can use the p2v conversion for those instances. I tried to convert another VM (this one without a snapshot) and got the error "virt-v2v is unable to convert this guest type" I'm guessing that the problem is that our VMWare VM's are an the v10 format, as I know a lot of tools have issue dealing with the newer format.
On 16-03-31 05:51 AM, Nisim Simsolo wrote:
Hi
Can you please try do delete source VMware VM snapshot and then try to import it? There is known issue for importing VMware VM with snapshot: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172425 - [RFE]virt-v2v failed to convert VMware ESX VM with snapshot
Thanks
Nisim Simsolo QE -Testing Engineer IRC: nsimsolo int phone - 8272305 mobile - 054-4779934
----- Original Message ----- | From: "Charles Tassell" <ctassell@gmail.com> | To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> | Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 9:53:10 PM | Subject: [ovirt-users] Problems With VMWare Import | | Hi Everyone, | | This doesn't seem to be a bug in oVirt so much as in the | libvirt/virt-v2v tool it uses for importing, but I figured someone here | might have run into this issue before. I'm trying to import some VMs | from my VMWare cluster and it's failing with a "file not found" when | trying to download the disk images. I have files in the datastore like: | | systest-55-000001-delta.vmdk 4G | systest-55-000001.vmdk 1K | systest-55-Snapshot1.vmsn 4G | systest-55-flat.vmdk 40G | systest-55.vmdk 1K | ... bunch more small .vm?? files | | For some reason virt-v2v is trying to download a file called | systest-55-000001-flat.vmdk which doesn't exist. I'm assuming this has | something to do with the snapshots stored in the folder... Does anyone | know a way to deal with that? Can I just delete the snapshots or is | that going to delete data stored on the VM since the last snapshot? I'm | using virt-v2v 1.28.1 if that makes a difference. | | _______________________________________________ | Users mailing list | Users@ovirt.org | http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users |
On 01 Apr 2016, at 04:01, Charles Tassell <charles@islandadmin.ca> wrote:
Actually, I guess I can't: p2v doesn't work either (it hangs because when it ssh's to the oVirt host and tries to run virsh there is a password prompt which it apparently can't deal with.)
which output did you use? -o rhev? or you can try -o local I guess jsut to see it does something
Has anyone successfully imported a VM from a recent version of VMWare (ie 5.5 or later) into oVirt? Is there any documentation on how to do so? I suppose I could just use something like CloneZilla to do it, but that seems like a bit of a pain, especially since we have about 50 VMs to move...
On 16-03-31 09:11 PM, Charles Tassell wrote:
Ah, that's a bit of a bummer but I guess I can use the p2v conversion for those instances. I tried to convert another VM (this one without a snapshot) and got the error "virt-v2v is unable to convert this guest type" I'm guessing that the problem is that our VMWare VM's are an the v10 format, as I know a lot of tools have issue dealing with the newer format.
On 16-03-31 05:51 AM, Nisim Simsolo wrote:
Hi
Can you please try do delete source VMware VM snapshot and then try to import it? There is known issue for importing VMware VM with snapshot: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172425 - [RFE]virt-v2v failed to convert VMware ESX VM with snapshot
Thanks
Nisim Simsolo QE -Testing Engineer IRC: nsimsolo int phone - 8272305 mobile - 054-4779934
----- Original Message ----- | From: "Charles Tassell" <ctassell@gmail.com> | To: "users" <users@ovirt.org> | Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 9:53:10 PM | Subject: [ovirt-users] Problems With VMWare Import | | Hi Everyone, | | This doesn't seem to be a bug in oVirt so much as in the | libvirt/virt-v2v tool it uses for importing, but I figured someone here | might have run into this issue before. I'm trying to import some VMs | from my VMWare cluster and it's failing with a "file not found" when | trying to download the disk images. I have files in the datastore like: | | systest-55-000001-delta.vmdk 4G | systest-55-000001.vmdk 1K | systest-55-Snapshot1.vmsn 4G | systest-55-flat.vmdk 40G | systest-55.vmdk 1K | ... bunch more small .vm?? files | | For some reason virt-v2v is trying to download a file called | systest-55-000001-flat.vmdk which doesn't exist. I'm assuming this has | something to do with the snapshots stored in the folder... Does anyone | know a way to deal with that? Can I just delete the snapshots or is | that going to delete data stored on the VM since the last snapshot? I'm | using virt-v2v 1.28.1 if that makes a difference.
you can try 1.32, it won’t help with the snapshot, but it might improve some things binaries for el7 can be found here[1] Thanks, michal [1] https://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-7.3-preview/
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