[ovirt-devel] Removal of Export Storage Domain and virt-v2v

[Richard W.M. Jones]

As you may know virt-v2v can use the Export Storage Domain (ESD) to
upload converted virtual machines to oVirt.  It was brought to my
attention yesterday that the ESD feature is being dropped, so this
will no longer work at some point in the future.  (BTW I would
appreciate notice if you're going to drop major features that we rely on.)

Although virt-v2v can still work via the GUI, this isn't really
suitable for bulk, scripted upload of hundreds or thousands of VMs.

The ESD method was never very good.  It was sort of an undocumented
back door into oVirt, and it was slow, and still required manual
intervention (after virt-v2v had done its job, you still needed to go
through the GUI and import the guests into the Data Domain).

What we really need is a fully scripted method to upload VMs --
metadata and disk images -- to oVirt.  Maybe one exists already?  If
not, what's the best way to do this?

Rich.

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