[ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Sandro Bonazzola]

Il 27/06/2014 07:41, Koen Vanoppen ha scritto:
> II created this document for the company where I work. Maybe it is userfull for you too:
> 
> Migrate from VMWare to oVirt
> 
> 1.    On VmWare:
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> a.    Export the VM to ovf format. There is a smb/nfs share on virt-v2v you can use as storage. 
> i.    NFS: Virtv2v.:/media/Storage
> ii.    SMB: virtv2v.  share: virtv2v
> 
> 2.    with virtv2v
> 
> a.    Log in on the virt-v2v vm.
> b.    Locate and Extract the ovf file with tar –xvf
> c.    Convert the extracted vmdk file to raw disk format with the following command:
> vboxmanage clonehd --format RAW <VMNAME>.vmdk <NewVMName>.raw
> d.    Convert the created RAW file to a qemu2 img:
> qemu-img convert -f raw <VM-Name>.raw -O qcow2 <VMName>.qcow2
> e.    Run the vm in virsh:
> virt-install --connect qemu:///system --ram 1024 -n griffu -r 2048 --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel6 --disk
> path=/media/Storage/<VMName>.qcow2,device=disk,format=qcow2 --vcpus=2 --vnc --noautoconsole –import
> f.    Take a xml dump of the VM and copy the result in a new file <VMName>.xml
> virsh dumpxml <VMName>
> g.    Now let’s move the vm to ovirt. Make sure the nfs is attached to the TestDev Datacenter.
> virt-v2v -i libvirtxml -ic qemu+ssh://<FQDN-Hypervisor> /system -o rhev -os <FQDN-NFS-exportdomainserver>:/media/NfsProgress -n ovirtmgmt <VMName>.xml


Can you create a page on oVirt Wiki?
I think it may be useful to have this there too.
Thanks!

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> 2014-06-24 15:19 GMT+02:00 Massimo Mad <mad1969it at gmail.com <mailto:mad1969it at gmail.com>>:
> 
>     Hello,
>     I downloaded an image .vmdk from a repository and wanted to import it into my oVirt infrastructure.
>     Is it possible?
>     If it is possible how?
>     Thanks,
>     Massimo
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