[Users] Move single vmdk (or else) disk into oVirt/RHEV

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:14:38PM +0100, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I find it hard to find any information about the way I have to
> follow to convert/import a vmdk/qcow/raw/etc... single disk into an
> oVirt disks list.
> 
> I know how to use virt-v2v to import complete VMs (disk AND config),
> but don't know how to handle a single data disk.

Assuming it's a data disk with no operating system on it, then it's
very likely the internal filesystem requires no conversion at all, so
it's outside the scope of virt-v2v.

However the disk format might need to be converted, eg. from VMDK to
qcow2.  You can do this using 'qemu-img convert' or VMware's
vdiskmanager program.

I'm not sure about how you would import a disk into oVirt.  I guess
that copying it onto the Export Storage Domain won't work because
oVirt will expect a full guest config.

Do you intend to attach this data disk to some existing VM?

Rich.

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