[ovirt-users] importing a qcow2 disk into ovirt 3.5?

[Paul Jansen]

I've just been doing some searching to try and work out how to get a vmware windows VM into ovirt.
It seems that the newest virtv2v has dropped support for importing from an ESXi standalone machine - and now only works with vcenter.  I didn't have any success with using the current virt-v2v attaching to an ESXi host.


I've prepared the VM by first removing the vmware tools and have installled the various virtio drivers, as well as running the 'mergeide' registry file to enable IDE.  I've used 'qemu-img' to convirt this VMDK file to QCOW2.  It does not appear that there is a straightforward way for me to import this new qcow2 disk into ovirt.

It seems my best option at the moment is to export the VMware VM as an OVA and then try and use a newer virt-v2v to import this into ovirt.
Alternatively I could construct a VM in virt-manager and attach the converted qcow2 disk to it, and then use virt-v2v to import this into ovirt.

Can someone suggest an alternative course of action?  It seems strange that I can't just import a disk into ovirt,  construct a VM and attach the disk.

Is there anything int he works to make this process easier?

Thanks,
Paul
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