[Users] .ova image file

[Matthew Booth]

On 10/12/12 11:26, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 12/10/2012 01:21 PM, Matthew Booth wrote:
>> On 07/12/12 23:22, Jonathan Horne wrote:
>>> Is there a way to convert a .ova image file into ovirt?
>>
>> We just added support for this to upstream virt-v2v, although it
>> requires a very recent qemu to work. F17 isn't new enough. I haven't
>> tested F18 qemu yet, but hopefully it'll be good there.
>>
>
> Thanks Matt,
> can you share any details on the differences from ovf in behavior?
> (and i was wondering why a newer kvm is needed?)

We can only output to oVirt's OVF, and we can only import from VMware's 
OVA. The command line looks something like:

# virt-v2v -i ova --profile ovirt foo.ova

It needs a new qemu for the latest vmdk driver in order to do the 
on-disk format conversion. The vmdk driver has been around for a while, 
but it's only just become usable. This has long been the barrier to 
implementing this feature.

Matt
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Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS
Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team

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