[Users] qcow2 image import.

[Andres Gonzalez]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Antoni Segura Puimedon <asegurap at redhat.com
> wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 17:42 -0300, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >                     *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.
> >
> >
> >                     Hello !!
> >
> >                     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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> >                 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?
>
>
There's an application from Acronis (
http://www.acronis.com/backup-recovery/advanced-server-virtual/#red-hat-rhev)
that seems to work (convert Citrix Xen Server and VMWAre VMs) to RHEV, this
should also work on oVirt, don't ?



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AGD
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