[ovirt-users] Upload img file to Storage Domain

[Barak Korren]

On 8 June 2016 at 15:58, Fernando Frediani <fernando.frediani at upx.com.br> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm spending a fair amount of time to find out how (if possible) to upload a
> .img image to a oVirt Storage Domain and be able to mount it in a VM as a
> disk.
>
> It is a OpenWRT image and there is no OVF from it, so it's a raw image which
> I wanted to use as a disc. Tried both with engine-iso-uploader and
> engine-image-uploader but they refure for diferent reasons.
>
> Is that possible at all ?
>

Uploading of QCOW images from GUI will hopefully land in 4.0.

In the meantime you can work around it like this:
1. Create a VM and install centos/some other Linux on it
2. Create a new VM disk and attach to VM, not the disk device
3. Copy the image from the file to the disk device with virt-resize.
4. Detach the disk from the VM and build a new VM around it

Optionally:
1. Convert the VM from step #4 to a template
2. Re use the VM from step #1 to upload more images.

HTH,

-- 
Barak Korren
bkorren at redhat.com
RHEV-CI Team