[ovirt-users] Import of ova failed

[Campbell McLeay]

Thanks Shahar. Will do. I created a new VM on VMWare for the purposes
of testing the import again with a new hostname, and it failed with
the same error.

Cheers,

Cam

On 21 July 2016 at 12:59, Shahar Havivi <shavivi at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 21.07.16 14:58, Shahar Havivi wrote:
>> The error looks like you have a problem in the storage pool which is null by
>> the log.
>>
>> Please open a bug and specify the exact steps that you took,
>> ie.
>> 1. $ virt-v2v -o rhev ...
>> 2. goto the admin portal and try to view the VMs in the export domain
>> 3. etc...
>>
>> If you can attach the ova without the disk it will be great.
> And please attach the engine.log as well.
>>
>> Shahar.
>>
>> On 21.07.16 10:16, Cam Mac wrote:
>> > 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.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > --
>> > > > > > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
>> > > > > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
>> > > > > > Read my programming and virtualization blog:
>> > > http://rwmj.wordpress.com
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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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