[Users] Importing an existing VM

Shu Ming shuming at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Mar 30 02:41:43 UTC 2012


On 2012-3-30 10:14, Andrey Falko wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am new to ovirt and can't find any documentation about how to import 
> an existing VM into ovirt. I have a qcow2 image that I know runs under 
> a KVM hypervisor. Ideally there would be a way for me to import it as 
> a template because I plan to create other virtual machines based off 
> this VM.
>
> I tried virt-v2v, but it will only work if I have a datacenter setup 
> with NFS. In my case, I have a datacenter setup for local storage hosts.
>
Don's know where are your datacenters.  If both of your datacenters are 
managed by oVirt,  You can export the existing VM in datacenter.  And 
then let the other datacenter to import it.

> Thanks,
>
> Andrey
>
>
>
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Shu Ming<shuming at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
IBM China Systems and Technology Laboratory

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