[ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem

[Donny Davis]

You could go old school and create an empty VM, with the right number of
disks, how you want it to be setup, then dd if=/your/disks/one/at/a/time
of=/the/empty/disks/created/by/ovirt

This happens on the storage server
On Sep 24, 2015 5:58 PM, "Maurice James" <mjames at media-node.com> wrote:

> It seems that oVirt is not recognizing the qcow2 images. I must convert it
> to raw which will not work for me because they are too large when expanded
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> *To: *"Maurice James" <mjames at media-node.com>
> *Cc: *"Shahar Havivi" <shavivi at redhat.com>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:40:36 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Maurice James <mjames at media-node.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> What about the problem with the IDE drives?
>>
>
> I think ide is limited to 4 drives, not sure why you see a limit of 3
> drives.
>
> Vdsm logs showing the errors you get would be very helpful to understand
> this.
>
> Please open an ovirt bug for this, and attach vdsm logs.
>
> But if you can use ide drives (hdX?), why not use virtio (vdX)? You can
> have 16 of these.
>
>
>> "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."
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: *"Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
>> *To: *"Maurice James" <mjames at media-node.com>
>> *Cc: *"Shahar Havivi" <shavivi at redhat.com>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> *Sent: *Wednesday, September 23, 2015 1:16:49 PM
>>
>> *Subject: *Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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