[Users] vmware disks

[Matthew Booth]

On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 17:44 +0300, Ekin Meroğlu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Richard W.M. Jones
> <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>         
>         On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:14:11AM +0100,
>         suporte at logicworks.pt wrote:
>         > Hi, it's possible to import a vmware disk into ovirt?
>         
>         
>         It depends.
>         
>         If you're using an ESX server, then yes, pretty easily with
>         virt-v2v.
> 
> 
> If you only have the images of the virtual machine but not the ESX
> server itself, it is possible use a dirty scenario: 
> 
> 
> - first convert the virtual machine to a local libvirt / virtmanager
> based KVM environment. [1] includes a brief how-to..
> - then use virt-v2v to import this new guest to an ovirt import
> domain.  The most complete documentation on v2v I could find is here
> [2]
> 
>  
>         If it's just a disk image, that's more difficult.  I think the
>         latest virt-v2v can do it.  (Matt?)
> 
> 
> It can not AFAIK, but this would be a very welcome addition...

The latest virt-v2v can convert a VMware OVA export.

Matt