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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 06:07:47PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote:
> 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>").

I guess we're talking about old virt-v2v here?
Shahar is writing a new OVA importer at the moment.

> >Thanks,
> >     Bob
> >
> >P.S. If of interest, the OVA tarball contains foo.ovf, foo.mf, and
> >system.vmdk.
> 
> how is a tempalte different than a VM in VMWare land?
> in ovirt its:
> - not having snapshots
> - a notation on the ovf

Matt any idea?

Rich.

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