[Users] vmware image conversion

[Maurice James]

Forgive my noobness, but are you telling me that I can convert an ESX image
without the existence of a running ESX server? If someone gave me an ESX
image on a DVD or hard drive I could then use virt-v2v to convert it?

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Doolittle [mailto:bob at doolittle.us.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:54 PM
To: Maurice James; 'Ted Miller'; users at ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion

Yes.
So:

VMware non-ESX -> ESX, using VMware's tool, then ESX -> RHEV using virt-v2v

no?

If this is viable, it's easy to understand why nobody wants to put effort
into supporting a bevy of VMware VM formats, when there's a tool already
available to convert to one and they can focus on it.

-Bob

On 02/19/2014 05:52 PM, Maurice James wrote:
> I want to change it from VMware to RHEV/oVirt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Doolittle [mailto:bob at doolittle.us.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:51 PM
> To: Maurice James; 'Ted Miller'; users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] vmware image conversion
>
> 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_Enterpri
>>>> s e _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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