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

[ovirt at timmi.org]

got it.
Thank you so much.


Am 20.12.2015 um 12:19 schrieb 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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