[ovirt-users] Problems With VMWare Import

[Charles Tassell]

Actually, I guess I can't: p2v doesn't work either (it hangs because 
when it ssh's to the oVirt host and tries to run virsh there is a 
password prompt which it apparently can't deal with.)

Has anyone successfully imported a VM from a recent version of VMWare 
(ie 5.5 or later) into oVirt?  Is there any documentation on how to do 
so?  I suppose I could just use something like CloneZilla to do it, but 
that seems like a bit of a pain, especially since we have about 50 VMs 
to move...


On 16-03-31 09:11 PM, Charles Tassell wrote:
> Ah, that's a bit of a bummer but I guess I can use the p2v conversion 
> for those instances.  I tried to convert another VM (this one without 
> a snapshot) and got the error "virt-v2v is unable to convert this 
> guest type"  I'm guessing that the problem is that our VMWare VM's are 
> an the v10 format, as I know a lot of tools have issue dealing with 
> the newer format.
>
> On 16-03-31 05:51 AM, Nisim Simsolo wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Can you please try do delete source VMware VM snapshot and then try 
>> to import it?
>> There is known issue for importing VMware VM with snapshot: 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172425 - [RFE]virt-v2v 
>> failed to convert VMware ESX VM with snapshot
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Nisim Simsolo
>> QE -Testing Engineer
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>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> | From: "Charles Tassell" <ctassell at gmail.com>
>> | To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> | Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 9:53:10 PM
>> | Subject: [ovirt-users] Problems With VMWare Import
>> |
>> | Hi Everyone,
>> |
>> |    This doesn't seem to be a bug in oVirt so much as in the
>> | libvirt/virt-v2v tool it uses for importing, but I figured someone 
>> here
>> | might have run into this issue before.  I'm trying to import some VMs
>> | from my VMWare cluster and it's failing with a "file not found" when
>> | trying to download the disk images.  I have files in the datastore 
>> like:
>> |
>> | systest-55-000001-delta.vmdk    4G
>> | systest-55-000001.vmdk  1K
>> | systest-55-Snapshot1.vmsn    4G
>> | systest-55-flat.vmdk 40G
>> | systest-55.vmdk   1K
>> | ... bunch more small .vm?? files
>> |
>> | For some reason virt-v2v is trying to download a file called
>> | systest-55-000001-flat.vmdk which doesn't exist.  I'm assuming this 
>> has
>> | something to do with the snapshots stored in the folder... Does anyone
>> | know a way to deal with that?  Can I just delete the snapshots or is
>> | that going to delete data stored on the VM since the last 
>> snapshot?  I'm
>> | using virt-v2v 1.28.1 if that makes a difference.
>> |
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