[Users] Migrating from KVM to oVirt 3.1 fails - corrupt OVF

Trey Dockendorf treydock at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 23:08:57 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Matthew Booth <mbooth at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 18/07/12 23:52, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>
>> On 07/18/2012 06:00 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm attempting to fine-tune the process of getting my KVM/Libvirt
>>> managed VMs over into my new oVirt infrastructure, and the virt-v2v
>>> import is failing in the WUI with "Failed to read VM 'dh-imager01'
>>> OVF, it may be corrupted".  I've attached both engine and vdsm logs
>>> that are a snapshot from when I ran the virt-v2v command until I saw
>>> the failure under Events.
>>
>>
>> matt - any thoughts?
>
>
> Nothing springs to mind immediately, but it sounds like v2v is producing an
> invalid OVF. If somebody can diagnose what the problem with the OVF is I can
> fix v2v.
>
> Matt
>
>
>>
>>>
>>> virt-v2v command used...
>>>
>>> # virt-v2v -i libvirtxml -o rhev -os
>>> dc-vmarchitect.tamu.edu:/exportdomain dh-imager01.xml
>>> dh-imager01_sys.qcow2: 100%
>>>
>>> [===========================================================================================================================================================================================================]D
>>>
>>> 0h00m37s
>>> virt-v2v: dh-imager01 configured with virtio drivers.
>>>
>>> The xml has been modified numerous times based on past mailing list
>>> comments to have VNC and Network information removed, but still the
>>> same failure.  I've attached the latest XML that was used in the log's
>>> failure as dh-imager01.xml.  I've also tried passing hte bridge device
>>> (ovirtmgmt) in the above command with same failure results.
>>>
>>> Node and Engine are both CentOS 6.2, with vdsm-4.10.0-4 and
>>> ovirt-engine-3.1 respectively.
>>>
>>> Please let me know what other configuration information could be
>>> helpful to debug / troubleshoot this.
>>>
>>> Are there any other methods besides a virt-v2v migration that can
>>> allow me to use my previous KVM VMs within oVirt?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> - Trey
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
>
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> Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS
> Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team
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Attached is the virt-v2v generated ovf that's in my NFS export domain

Any other means to get KVM/libvirt/virt-manager based VMs into oVirt?
Possibly something as crude as provisioning new VMs with oVirt then
replacing the virtual hard drives?

Thanks
- Trey
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