[ovirt-users] best way to migrate VMs from VMware to oVirt

[Nir Soffer]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Cam Mac <iucounu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nir,
>
> I have tried the import vm feature, but with no luck. Here is the original
> email I sent, which
> includes logs attached of the errors when using this tool:
>
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-June/040298.html

You wrote:

> I can access via http a list of VMs at the following URL:

> https://nssesxi-mgmt/folder?dcPath=North%2520Sutton%2520Street&dsName=nssesxi%252dc2%252dr10%252dlun2

> Below is the URI to the vm itself (once shutdown, it gets the name 'vm2_1'):

> https://nssesxi-mgmt/folder/wvm2_1?dcPath=North%2520Sutton%2520Street&dsName=nssesxi%252dc1%252dr10%252dlun2

Smells like vmware bug, double-escaping %20 to %2520.

Did you check with vmware support?

I would eliminate the spaces in the data center name to avoid such issues.

Nir

>
> Kind regards,
>
> Cam
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Cam Mac <iucounu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I haven't had any luck using the oVirt GUI or virt-v2v (see earlier
>> > email),
>> > and I need to find a way to migrate quite a few Windows hosts (Windows
>> > 7,
>> > 2012, 2008, 2k3 etc) into my test oVirt cluster as a PoC so I can make a
>> > compelling case for getting rid of VMware. Using OVF files looks like a
>> > lot
>> > more manual work as compared to the GUI or virt-v2v, with their nice
>> > conversion features.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions?
>>
>> I think the best way is use our import external vm feature.
>>
>> Can you point us to the mail about this?
>>
>> Nir
>
>