[ovirt-users] how to import a disk image w/o associated vm

[Jeremiah Jahn]

One of the things that I have to where I work, is pull and push disk
images onto appliances and other physical things.  This is generally
done with a little dd magic.   We'll start up the appliance in a
virtual machine and mess with it in one way or another, then when
we're done we'll take that image and use it to image our appliances
that we send out.  So we have this collection of  some_system.img
files laying around.  With virt-manager I can just stick the image
file in a storage pool somewhere, create a new vm, and attach the
image.

So my question is how is this done in ovirt. v2v and
engine-upload-image all want a pre-configured vm to work with. That is
not what I have. Is there anyway to do this? I thought it'd be
something like drop an img onto the export domain, and import it,
create a vm around it. Once done export the image back to the export
domain and move it someplace to be useful. This is not the case as far
as I can tell. Am I missing something?


-jj-