[ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem

[Nir Soffer]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Maurice James <mjames at media-node.com>
wrote:

>
> To convert the images I used:
> qemu-img convert 250.qcow2 -O raw 250.img -p
>

Sure this will expand the file to the full size, but why do you need raw
image? ovirt works with qcow images.


> oVirt will not allow me to have more than 3 IDE devices on a VM
>

What do you mean by "it does not seem to work using the virtio-scsi
selection."?


> Doesnt 3.6 only work on RHEL/Centos 7?
>

And Fedora 21/22.


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> *From: *"Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> *To: *"Maurice James" <mjames at media-node.com>, "Shahar Havivi" <
> shavivi at redhat.com>
> *Cc: *"users" <users at ovirt.org>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, September 22, 2015 7:37:58 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem
>
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> 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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