[ovirt-devel] virt-v2v intergration with vdsm

[Shahar Havivi]

On 30.09.14 12:11, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:37:44AM +0200, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
> > On Sep 16, 2014, at 14:17 , Shahar Havivi <shaharh at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > 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?:)
> 
> Is this directed at me?  Anyway I read it the first time, and I've
> just scanned through it again.
> 
> I think it would be nice if the page talked about exactly what
> virt-v2v command line(s) you are going to run.
> 
> In particular we support several sources.  See the '-i' options here:
> 
>   http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html
> 
> Each source has slight quirks, so you'll need to take that into
> account in the UI.  To give you just one example: RHEL 5 Xen import
> needs an ssh-agent, username, server name, optional port, and guest
> name -- I don't think you've taken in to account any of those.
Thanks for the input, we will take that into account.

> 
> The second thing is P2V, which is (or can be) directed from the
> physical machine.  It needs a virt-v2v instance to talk to, and I
> guess that rules out vdsm.  Lots more on this topic in the manual page
> (especially the 1.27.56 man page which is *not* online yet, so please
> consult the man page in the brew package for now).
We are not sure that we will get to P2V in 3.6...
Our main effort is importing from vSphere and Xen, as well as importing local
ISO and OVA files.

> 
> Rich.
> 
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