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

[Andrew Lau]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Andrew Lau <andrew at andrewklau.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Jeremiah Jahn
> <jeremiah at goodinassociates.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I was just looking at the same thing a few hours ago.. so far I've
> found two possible options:
>
> - Create the VM with your disk, find the uuid of that and dd your
> source image onto this newly created image
> - You should be able to manually create items in your export domain,
> they just need a metadata file.
>
> First is a VM export template and the second is an exported VM
Oops, other way round..

>
> [root at ov-engine1 images]# cat
> 39efaa5f-394c-4842-b791-8eff831bca83/10824522-7e89-4f39-821d-bd7371b23f76.meta
> DOMAIN=a571b1f5-b3c6-45d6-99dc-cdc5bdcdc249
> VOLTYPE=LEAF
> CTIME=1397108117
> FORMAT=RAW
> IMAGE=39efaa5f-394c-4842-b791-8eff831bca83
> DISKTYPE=2
> PUUID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
> LEGALITY=LEGAL
> MTIME=1397108118
> POOL_UUID=
> DESCRIPTION=
> TYPE=SPARSE
> SIZE=41943040
> EOF
>
> [root at ov-engine1 images]# cat
> 9efe9fea-fb1d-4945-b10a-93d8914638bc/c06a63de-3761-485a-a6e9-92f6ed586254.meta
> DOMAIN=a571b1f5-b3c6-45d6-99dc-cdc5bdcdc249
> VOLTYPE=SHARED
> CTIME=1397108361
> FORMAT=RAW
> IMAGE=9efe9fea-fb1d-4945-b10a-93d8914638bc
> DISKTYPE=2
> PUUID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
> LEGALITY=LEGAL
> MTIME=1397108361
> POOL_UUID=
> SIZE=33554432
> TYPE=SPARSE
> DESCRIPTION=
> EOF
>
> I find the first option would probably be easier. Would be nice to see
> a better alternative, ie. the glance import method is quite nice.
>
>>
>>
>> -jj-
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