[ovirt-users] Import of exported VMware VM fails

[Shahar Havivi]

Check for permissions,
All the directory hierarchy and the images as well as the ovf needs to reached
by the vdsm user, its best to change the owner to vdsm:kvm (e.g. 36:36).

 Shahar.


On 29.08.16 16:05, Cam Mac wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've use ovftool to create an .ova of a VMWare guest (in this case W2012),
> and then have converted it with virt-v2v, outputting to the oVirt export
> domain (virt-v2v -i ova /space/w2012-test.ova -o ovirt -os
> ovirt-engine:/mnt/export-vm -of qcow2). This appears to work, though it
> reports a warning:
> 
> [   0.0] Opening the source -i ova /space/w2012-test.ova
> [   5.3] Creating an overlay to protect the source from being modified
> [   5.9] Initializing the target -o rhev -os ovirt-engine:/mnt/export-vm
> [   6.1] Opening the overlay
> [  11.5] Inspecting the overlay
> [  12.6] Checking for sufficient free disk space in the guest
> [  12.6] Estimating space required on target for each disk
> [  12.6] Converting Windows Server 2012 Standard Evaluation to run on KVM
> virt-v2v: warning: Neither rhev-apt.exe nor vmdp.exe can be found.  Unable
> to install one of them.
> virt-v2v: warning: there is no QXL driver for this version of Windows (6.2
> x86_64).  virt-v2v looks for this driver in /usr/share/virtio-win
> 
> The guest will be configured to use a basic VGA display driver.
> virt-v2v: This guest has virtio drivers installed.
> [  13.5] Mapping filesystem data to avoid copying unused and blank areas
> [  16.6] Closing the overlay
> [  16.6] Checking if the guest needs BIOS or UEFI to boot
> [  16.6] Assigning disks to buses
> [  16.6] Copying disk 1/1 to
> /space/scratch/v2v.F5dkB2/ff68b458-3fe9-4ecf-95b7-cfdcc42dd291/images/b8a180eb-e075-44bf-a6f0-263e2792f5d7/a49bed7d-9ac3-48f1-8b00-2abb1e4c183f
> (qcow2)
>     (100.00/100%)
> [ 200.3] Creating output metadata
> [ 200.3] Finishing off
> 
> I can then see the exported VM available for import in the oVirt GUI. When
> I import it however, it just says it fails to import, and having a look at
> the engine log I can't see what is wrong specifically:
> 
> 2016-08-29 15:43:06,620 INFO
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.DoesImageExistVDSCommand]
> (default task-372) [4cdcbb5c] FINISH, DoesImageExistVDSCommand, return:
> true, log id: 188b0975
> 2016-08-29 15:43:06,715 WARN
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.exportimport.ImportVmCommand] (default task-372)
> [] VM '980e3d5d-934a-4426-850d-23ba5df77b01' doesn't have active snapshot
> in export domain
> 2016-08-29 15:43:06,788 INFO
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.exportimport.ImportVmCommand]
> (org.ovirt.thread.pool-8-thread-17) [4cdcbb5c] Running command:
> ImportVmCommand internal: false. Entities affected :  ID:
> 9d1fe12c-5c5f-49ad-a875-a735acba2530 Type: StorageAction group
> IMPORT_EXPORT_VM with role type ADMIN,  ID:
> ff68b458-3fe9-4ecf-95b7-cfdcc42dd291 Type: StorageAction group
> IMPORT_EXPORT_VM with role type ADMIN
> 2016-08-29 15:43:06,797 INFO
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.transaction.TransactionSupport]
> (org.ovirt.thread.pool-8-thread-17) [4cdcbb5c] transaction rolled back
> 2016-08-29 15:43:06,798 ERROR
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.exportimport.ImportVmCommand]
> (org.ovirt.thread.pool-8-thread-17) [4cdcbb5c] Command
> 'org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.exportimport.ImportVmCommand' failed: null
> 2016-08-29 15:43:06,798 ERROR
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.exportimport.ImportVmCommand]
> (org.ovirt.thread.pool-8-thread-17) [4cdcbb5c] Exception:
> java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cam

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