[Users] Ovirt-engine

[René Koch (ovido)]

On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 20:00 +0530, kumar shantanu wrote:
> Hello Markus, 
> 
> 
> Thanks for coming back so quickly. I will read the document shortly.
> In the mean time my kvm hypervisor is already running and it's
> attached to iscsi storage. 
> 
> Do I need to convert all machines ? or I can simply mange all the
> stuff through ovirt-engine like I am managing with virt-manager for
> now. 


Your hypervisor must be CentOS 6 or Fedora 18/19 in order to be able to
manage it with oVirt (other Linux distributions are still a wip).

As oVirt has a totally different concept as virt-manager you have to
import your machines into oVirt. As Markus already wrote this can be
done using virt-v2v.


Regards,
René
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Markus Stockhausen
> <stockhausen at collogia.de> wrote:
>         > Von: users-bounces at ovirt.org [users-bounces at ovirt.org]" im
>         Auftrag von "kumar shantanu [k.shantanu2006 at gmail.com]
>         > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. September 2013 14:49
>         > An: users
>         > Betreff: [Users] Ovirt-engine
>         >
>         > Hello Everyone ,
>         >
>         > Can I use ovirt-engine to mange my already installed/running
>         kvm host/guest ?
>         > If yes can someone guide me to the documentation/howto
>         please ?
>         >
>         > Thanks
>         >
>         > Shantanu
>         
>         
>         Hello,
>         
>         welcome to the list. ovirt uses a central management server
>         (ovirt-engine) that
>         manages the machine definition in a database. It controls VMs
>         on several hypervisor
>         hosts with this information. To get a VM into the database you
>         have to import
>         it. virt-v2v helps me for VMWare sources and it should do the
>         trick for you. Find
>         more info in chapter A.1.2.4 of this page:
>         
>         https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_for_Servers/2.2/html/Administration_Guide/virt-v2v-scripts.html
>         
>         Markus
>         
>         
>         
> 
> 
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