[Users] Importing an existing VM

[Michal Kopacki]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:14:58 -0700
Andrey Falko <afalko at salesforce.com> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrey
> 


   You should create export domain (nfs but still locally on same
   machine) and import existing image to this domain. After succesfull
   import you can restore machine to your local images domain and
   start VM.

-- 
Michal