[ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Simone Tiraboschi]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>
> To: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske at mittwald.de>
> Cc: mad1969it at gmail.com, users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, August 4, 2014 5:33:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm
> 
> 
> On Aug 4, 2014, at 17:26 , Sven Kieske <S.Kieske at mittwald.de> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Am 03.08.2014 21:35, schrieb Itamar Heim:
> >> On 06/30/2014 09:50 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
> >>> No, as far as I know this is _not_ on the roadmap.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> actually it is.
> >> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration
> >> 
> >> one of my comments to the feature page was it should include a file
> >> based conversion, not just from esxi.
> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025876.html
> > 
> > No, it's not:
> > 
> > "Offline VMware images (OVAs), not yet.  However patches are welcome.
> > We quite literally have no one available to implement this."[1]
> > 
> > 
> > [1]http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025881.html
> > 
> > Or has this changed yet? This would be great news!
> 
> well, it is in the plan to do that, so "yes, it's on the roadmap"
> is it done? no, not yet…
> We're hoping to get it in for 3.6 timeframe…

By the way, how are you going to copy the VM between the two system?
As far as I know scp doesn't handle really well with sparse files (and thin provisioned VMs are sparse files) ending up copying the fully expanded disk image wasting a lot of time just transferring zeroes.

Some third party utilities, like virtsync for the KVM world (http://www.virtsync.com/) or Veam FastSCP (http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esxi-fastscp.html) for the VMWare world, already implement some smarter copy approach (also a tar with -S option over an ssh pipe is indeed enough) to make it more efficient and they are quite appreciated.

Are we designing something similar?

thanks,
Simone