[Users] qcow2 image import.

[Antoni Segura Puimedon]

On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 17:42 -0300, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:
>         On 08/19/2012 01:22 PM, Omer Frenkel wrote:
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>                     *From: *"Andres Gonzalez" <tuchoz at gmail.com>
>                     *To: *users at ovirt.org
>                     *Sent: *Saturday, August 18, 2012 5:30:34 AM
>                     *Subject: *[Users] qcow2 image import.
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>                     Hello !!
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>                     I'm wondering if it's possible to import a VM disk
>                 on qcow2 format
>                     on oVirt to use it as a VM hard disk.
>                     The idea is to import a VMWare (vmdk) o Xen (ova)
>                 virtual hdd on oVirt.
>                 
>                     Regards.
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>                     AGD
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>                 As far as i remember, there is no way to import just a
>                 disk,
>                 only vm/template.
>                 i guess you could find a way to create an OVF to
>                 represent a vm that
>                 attached to that disk,
>                 import it and then detach the disk from the fake vm
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>         but you don't need to convert the vmdk to qcow2 necessarily -
>         take a look at virt-v2v to do this for you, including changing
>         drivers, etc.
>         
> 
> As could could see virt-v2v converts VMWare ESX/ESXi VMs, but I have
> on VMWare Server 2.x.
Wouldn't it be possible to use VMware converter 3 to migrate the VMs to
ESX/ESXi type and then use virt-v2v?
> Also I have Citrix XenServer VMs.
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> Regards.-
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> AGD
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