[ovirt-users] Import of ova failed

[Cam Mac]

Hi Shahar,

Doesn't appear to be there:

engine=> select vm_name from vm_static where vm_name='wvm2';
 vm_name
---------
(0 rows)

Thanks,

Cam



On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Shahar Havivi <shavivi at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 20.07.16 20:06, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 07:16:32PM +0100, Cam Mac wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The import doesn't happen automatically, you have to do the final
> step
> > > > manually (when using the command line).  See:
> > > >
> > > > http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#output-to-rhev
> > > >
> > > > However that error shouldn't happen.  It looks like the name is the
> > > > same as the name of an existing VM.  From virt-v2v you can do the
> > > > whole conversion/import over again, this time adding the `-on
> > > > new_name' option to the command line (obviously choosing a name which
> > > > is not otherwise being used).
> > > >
> > > > I don't know if there's a way to get oVirt to change the name when
> > > > importing from the export domain.  As far as I know you have to start
> > > > the import from scratch.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > There's no existing VM with that name that I can see. It may have come
> from
> > > one of my earlier import attempts,
> > > though that earlier attempt did not show up in the GUI, it did write
> files
> > > to the export domain.
> > >
> > > I re-ran the conversion again with a rename but it failed to import it
> > > again, with the same error.
> > >
> > > Could there be a record in the DB somewhere, or does it look at the
> files
> > > alone? Just trying to work out where the conflict is.
> >
> > I had a look at the ovirt-engine code where
> > ACTION_TYPE_FAILED_NAME_ALREADY_USED is raised and it appears to come
> > from a database check.  However I'm not really familiar enough with
> > the code to be sure.  Probably best to ask an oVirt developer, or try
> > dumping the database to see if "wvm2" appears in a column anywhere.
> >
> > Rich.
> >
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> It may be in the DB...
> Try to run this via psql:
>
> select vm_name from vm_static where vm_name='wvm2';
>
> and see if there is a result...
>
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