[Users] Importing VMs

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/03/2012 11:27 AM, Andrew Dunlop wrote:
> I am looking at how I might go about importing a mixture of existing
> VMs into oVirt.
> There doesn't appear to be any obvious way of doing this so I am
> assuming it should be done manually.
> If I where to create a raw disk image of my existing KVM virtual
> machines how would I then go about importing this?
> I can see on a node running a VM that there are two files in the
> images folder associated with it. These appear to be the disk image
> and a meta file containing configuration options for the VM.
> Would the best way to go about this be to create a VM with the options
> I require in oVirt and power cycle it so these files are created then
> replace the disk image with my one, preserving the file name (which I
> assume is the VMID).

take a look at new and shiney utility called ovirt-image-uploader.
cc-ing its author Keith