[ovirt-users] Need to import a template in OVA format

[Itamar Heim]

On 08/29/2014 06:38 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> I have a template designed for VMware VMs, in OVA format.
>
> Is there a way I can import this template to oVirt, in order to create
> an oVirt VM from it?
>
> virt-v2v seems designed to import VMs, not templates, and it whines
> about no storage devices in the Guest (when using "-i ova -o rhev -os
> <NFS_PATH_TO_EXPORT_DOMAIN>").
>
> Thanks,
>      Bob
>
> P.S. If of interest, the OVA tarball contains foo.ovf, foo.mf, and
> system.vmdk.
>
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how is a tempalte different than a VM in VMWare land?
in ovirt its:
- not having snapshots
- a notation on the ovf