[ovirt-devel] OVA imports into virt-v2v (was: Re: [ovirt-users] virt-v2v integration feature)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:11:24AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:41:16AM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote:
> > On 07/10/2014 10:29 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >Am 09.07.2014 20:30, schrieb Arik Hadas:
> > >>Hi All,
> > >>
> > >>The proposed feature will introduce a new process of import virtual machines from external systems using virt-v2v in oVirt.
> > >>I've created a wiki page that contains initial thoughts and design for it:
> > >>http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration
> > >>
> > >>You are more than welcome to share your thoughts and insights.
> > >>
> > >>Thanks,
> > >>Arik
> > >
> > >Am I right that this still involves a full operational e.g. esxi host
> > >to import vmware vms?
> > >
> > >There is a huge user demand on a simpler process for just converting and
> > >importing an vmware disk image. This feature will not solve this
> > >use case, will it?
> > 
> > I agree it should. need to check if virt-v2v can cover this. if not,
> > need to fix it so it will...
> 
> >From live ESX, yes.
> 
> Offline VMware images (OVAs), not yet.  However patches are welcome.
> We quite literally have no one available to implement this.

Just catching up on this ..

virt-v2v now supports OVA imports, and it works pretty well.  Please
make sure you use the new version, available here:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-May/msg00090.html

or in Fedora >= 21 or Debian experimental.

Rich.

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