[ovirt-devel] virt-v2v intergration with vdsm

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Sep 16, 2014, at 14:17 , Shahar Havivi <shaharh at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We are planning to add couple of verbs to vdsm in order to import external VMs
> from VMWare esx server directly to data domain.
> 
> This ability will also be reflected in oVirt engine and will enable user to
> view and select VMs from esx server, currently if oVirt user want to import a
> VM he needs to invoke a virt-v2v command line that will transfer the VM to
> an export domain and then import the same VM from export domain to data domain,
> Our goal is to eliminate the additional copy and simplify the process.
> 
> In order to achive that we need to add two verbs for vdsm:
> 
> 1. getExternalVmList(uri):
>   This call is for listing all VMs that are raised in a specified esx server
>   given its uri.
> 2. convertExternalVm():
>   The actual call to virt-v2v for copy and convert the VM to data domain,
>   importVm will be called after the oVirt engine create the right image
>   structure (via createImage)
> 
> The virt-v2v handling verbs and other needed logic will be presented in a new
> file vdsm/v2v.py
> 
> More details on virt-v2v integration can be found in its feature page:
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration

sounds good
anyone else?:)

Thanks,
michal

> 
> Thanks,
>  Shahar Havivi.