[ovirt-users] can't import vm from KVM host

[Shahar Havivi]

On 23.08.16 11:24, Nelson Lameiras wrote:
> Hello,
Hi,

We do have a bug on that issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362525
and its handled.

Thanks,
 Shahar.
> 
> I'm trying to import virtual machines from a KVM host (centos 7.2) to an oVirt 4.0.2 Cluster using the "import" feature on GUI.
> 
> If the original VM is using RAW/QCOW2 files as storage, everything works fine. 
> 
> But if the original VM is using a special block special device as storage (like a LVM or SAN volume), it's simply not recognized. 
> The VM does appear in the import list of the KVM host, but it's disk count is 0!
> 
> Is this a known technical obstacle or am I doing something wrong ?
> 
> below is the storage part of the xml describing the original VM :
> <disk type='block' device='disk'>
>   <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none' io='native'/>
>   <source dev='/dev/mapper/vg_01-lv_sys'/>
>   <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
>   <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
> </disk>
> <disk type='block' device='disk'>
>   <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none' io='native'/>
>   <source dev='/dev/sdc'/>
>   <target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
>   <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/>
> </disk>
> 
> We have hundreds of virtual machines in production with this type of configuration... How can we migrate them safely to oVirt?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Nelson
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