[ovirt-users] Import of ova failed

Thu Jul 21 13:38:12 UTC 2016

I tried that already, and it fails. I gave it another try with the GUI on
the new VM I created, as you described, and it fails.
I can attach the engine log if you like.

Thanks,

Cam

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Shahar Havivi <shavivi at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
> > >> > > > > > Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs,
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> > >> > > > > > build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported.
> > >> > > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW
> > >> > > > > 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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