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

[Itamar Heim]

On 07/20/2012 02:08 AM, Trey Dockendorf wrote:
> 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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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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?
>

this would work - just create the VM on an NFS storage domain with a 
disk the same size as origin, and copy over the disk you had.
a bit trickier for iscsi, so i'd do this with nfs.

> Thanks
> - Trey
>