[Users] virt-v2v

[Vered Volansky]

Jonathan,

I'm bringing here the entire previous post on the matter:

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>> 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.
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Do you indeed meet the requirements mentioned above?

Vered


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne at skopos.us>
> To: "Vered Volansky" <vered at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 11:10:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] virt-v2v
> 
> Vered, when i tried it, i got output error:
> 
> Virt-v2v: there is no profile named ovirt.
> 
> Any ideas?  When i run virt-v2v --list-profiles, i get nothing.
>  There are
> no profiles.
> 
> I appreciate your help you are giving me,
> jonathan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/10/12 11:21 AM, "Vered Volansky" <vered at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >Jonathan,
> >
> >Your previous post's thread has this answer in it:
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> >Is it not helpful to you?
> >If not, please say why.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Vered.
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne at skopos.us>
> >> To: users at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 4:25:47 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Users] virt-v2v
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> What about converting something like a .ova file into ovirt? From
> >> what i read in the man pages, it only converts live running Vms,
> >> not
> >> files? Is that the correct assessment?
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Allon Mureinik < amureini at redhat.com >
> >> Date: Sunday, December 9, 2012 12:33 AM
> >> To: Jonathan Horne < jhorne at skopos.us >
> >> Cc: " users at ovirt.org " < users at ovirt.org >
> >> Subject: Re: [Users] virt-v2v
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> In a nutshell - yes.
> >>
> >> It can convert RHEL and windows guests running on Xen or ESX to
> >> KVM-based guests that can be imported into oVirt.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: "Jonathan Horne" < jhorne at skopos.us >
> >> To: users at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2012 1:40:15 AM
> >> Subject: [Users] virt-v2v
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Is virt-v2v something i can leverage to get foreign virtual guests
> >> into my ovirt/node environment?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> jonathan
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