[ovirt-users] Import of ova failed

[Cam Mac]

Sent, thanks Shahar.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Shahar Havivi <shavivi at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 21.07.16 10:03, Cam Mac wrote:
> OK,
> Can you please share the engine.log
> > 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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