[ovirt-users] Import of ova failed

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 07:02:24PM +0100, Cam Mac wrote:
> > Try to run virt-v2v -i ova -o local to import the ova to local disk (see
> > the
> > virt-v2v man page for more options) and see if that pass - the errors can
> > be
> > more detailed there (it suppose to reflect the same error that you get in
> > vdsm
> > log)., another options you can do is run virt-v2v in verbose mode (virt-v2v
> > -v).
> >
> 
> I can try this but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. The ovf I created
> via guest-image-ovf-creator is on an NFS mount
> on the engine: do I need to run virt-v2v on one of the nodes? If so, I
> assume I need to set the output to an export domain.
> Does '-o local' stick it on the node's VM storage?

Yes, don't use -o local.

virt-v2v has an -o rhev option which will import directly from VMware
to RHEV or oVirt.  Please see the manual:

http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#convert-from-vmware-to-rhev-m-ovirt
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#output-to-rhev

Rich.

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