[ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem

[Nir Soffer]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Maurice James <mjames at media-node.com>
wrote:

> I have a virtual mail security appliance that I am trying to import into
> oVirt 3.5.4. The appliance was built for kvm. it has a total of 5 scsi
> disks. I can convert and copy the OS disk only because it expands its self
> to full size.
>
> The first problem that I have is that the disks expand to their full size
> when I convert the to an oVirt format
>

How do you convert to ovirt format?


>
> OS Disk
> mail.qcow2 (74M) converts to main.img (294M)
>
>
> Storage disks
> 250.qcow2 (256K) converts to 250.img  (250GB)
> 1024.qcow2 (256K) converts to 1024.img (1TB)
> 2048.qcow2 (256K) converts to 2048.img (2TB)
> 4096.qvow2 (256K) converts to 4096.img (4TB)
> 8192.qcow2 (256K) converts to 8192.img (8TB)
>
>
>
> The second problem is that these disks are scsi and ti does not seem to
> work using the virtio-scsi selection. I tried selecting the IDE option, but
> there is a limit to the number of IDE disks that I can use.
>

Can you provide more details about "does not seem to work"?


>
> Virtualbox has no issues running the appliance that was distributed in the
> ova format. Any help would be appreciated
>

ovirt-3.6 beta supports import from ova format; maybe you like to try it?

Nir


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