[ovirt-users] Import of ova failed

[Shahar Havivi]

On 21.07.16 14:01, Campbell McLeay wrote:
> 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.
What you are trying to do is as far as I understand is to use virt-v2v utility
to put the ova in export domain, there may be something wrong between the
virt-v2v output ovf and the oVirt engine.
You can try the new feature to import ova strait on oVirt admin portal (if you
already try that the forget it), go to the vms tab -> import and select
"vmware ova" from the select box...

> 
> 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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