[ovirt-users] Need to import a template in OVA format

[Matthew Booth]

On 31/08/14 18:16, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 06:07:47PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 08/29/2014 06:38 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>> I have a template designed for VMware VMs, in OVA format.
>>>
>>> Is there a way I can import this template to oVirt, in order to create
>>> an oVirt VM from it?
>>>
>>> virt-v2v seems designed to import VMs, not templates, and it whines
>>> about no storage devices in the Guest (when using "-i ova -o rhev -os
>>> <NFS_PATH_TO_EXPORT_DOMAIN>").
> 
> I guess we're talking about old virt-v2v here?
> Shahar is writing a new OVA importer at the moment.
> 
>>> Thanks,
>>>     Bob
>>>
>>> P.S. If of interest, the OVA tarball contains foo.ovf, foo.mf, and
>>> system.vmdk.
>>
>> how is a tempalte different than a VM in VMWare land?
>> in ovirt its:
>> - not having snapshots
>> - a notation on the ovf
> 
> Matt any idea?

I've never looked in detail, but my understanding is that they're
essentially identical, and that a template just has a flag set on it to
mark it as a template.

Please don't take that as gospel, though.

Matt

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