[Users] vmware image conversion

[Bob Doolittle]

My recollection is that VMware provides a converter to change your 
VMware non-ESX VMs into ESX format.
Do you have to buy ESX to gain access to it?

-Bob

On 02/19/2014 05:46 PM, Maurice James wrote:
> I even open a feature request that they closed pretty quickly with WONTFIX
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062910 . Why is this such a
> touchy issue?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] On Behalf Of
> Ted Miller
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:28 PM
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
>
>
> On 2/9/2014 4:27 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 02/09/2014 10:28 PM, Maurice James wrote:
>>> The instructions assume that I have an ESX instance to connect to.
>>> How do I do this with an already exported vmware image with no esx
>>> available to connect to? I have a turnkey drupal vm in ovf format
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Itamar Heim [mailto:iheim at redhat.com]
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 2:24 PM
>>> To: Maurice James; 'users'
>>> Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
>>>
>>> On 02/09/2014 07:02 PM, Maurice James wrote:
>>>> According to this https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1749.html
>>>> It does not do it
>>> please review:
>>> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise
>>> _Virtua lization/3.3/html-single/V2V_Guide/index.html
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Itamar Heim [mailto:iheim at redhat.com]
>>>> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 4:52 AM
>>>> To: Maurice James; 'users'
>>>> Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
>>>>
>>>> On 02/08/2014 04:18 PM, Maurice James wrote:
>>>>> I submitted an RFE to have vmware image conversion added to 3.5. I
>>>>> think that is a key feature that is lacking. Im just trying to get
>>>>> some eyes on it here.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062910
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> can you comment on the gaps from virt-v2v which does this today (in
>>>> the bug as well).
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>        Itamar
>>>>
>> iirc, you need an ESX currently.
> Some of us are stuck without a way to try out ovirt because of this.  ESX is
> not the only platform that people run VMWare on.  I am trying to bring over
> VMs from an old VMWare Server setup on Centos 5.  Works fine, but there is
> no migration path.  Other people may have VMs on VMWare Workstation or
> other, older products.  We just get told to go fly a kite?
>
> If the only choice is to bring up a full-blown, working ESX instance, I may
> bring up ESXi and stay there.
>
> Ted Miller
> Elkhart, IN
>
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