[ovirt-users] Import KVM/libvirt VMs to oVirt

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:59 PM,  <ovirt at timmi.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thank you for the quick response.
>
> Yes I can confirm that I'm also able to perform this through copying of the
> image but then you need to know the exact file name of the disk you need to
> overwrite.
>
> Is there a way to see the file name also in the oVirt admin portal?

If you check the "Disks" tab, you'll see there an ID tab.

For nfs/qcow, that's a directory name to be found under 'images'
inside the storage domain. Under this directory you'll find several
files (data, metadata and lease) per each snapshot of this disk.
Not sure any of this is documented and/or intended for direct
manipulation.

Best,

>
> Best regards
> Christoph
>
>
>
> Am 20.12.2015 um 11:24 schrieb Yedidyah Bar David:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:13 PM,  <ovirt at timmi.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> finally I managed to install oVirt on my new server and so far it is
>>> really
>>> great.
>>>
>>> The next step on my side it to migrate VMs from another server
>>> (KVM/libvirtd/virt-manager) to oVirt.
>>> I was trying to find something in the documentation but so far no luck.
>>>
>>> Google was pointing me to tow options:
>>>
>>> - virt-v2v
>>> - import-to-ovirt.pl (script from Richard WM Jones)
>>>
>>>
>>> Currently I'm trying to migrate a Win7 VM (with VirtIO) with
>>> import_to_ovirt
>>> bzt I receive the following error message:
>>> ./import-to-ovirt.pl: no operating system was found on the disk
>>>
>>> I'm executing the following command:
>>> ./import-to-ovirt.pl /path-to-image-file/disk.img hostname:/export-domain
>>>
>>> Is anyone able to support me here?
>>> As both systems are running KVM there should be a quite easy way to
>>> migrate
>>> the VMs or not?
>>
>> Adding Richard.
>>
>> IIRC people managed to do that by merely creating a new vm and copying the
>> existing one over the new empty disk. No idea about details, you might
>> want
>> to search the list archives.
>>
>> Best,
>
>



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Didi