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

[Sven Kieske]

On 21/10/14 07:27, Paul Jansen wrote:
> 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?

Did you consult the documentation of virt-v2v ?
Imho all the information you need is there, but I didn't test this
myself so ymmv.

Here's the link:
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html

HTH

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Sven Kieske

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