[Users] vmware disks
Matthew Booth
mbooth at redhat.com
Wed Oct 23 14:51:20 UTC 2013
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
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