[ovirt-users] Import OVA

[Arik Hadas]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Andy Kress <farkey_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This is a KVM native OVA.  Other than pulling apart the archive and
> importing the disks directly, then attaching the disk to a VM, is there a
> more efficient process??
>

Unfortunately, not yet. A better process is planned for 4.2:
https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/pull/828/files


>
> Thanks
>
> On Apr 25, 2017, at 12:02 PM, Arik Hadas <ahadas at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> If that's a VMware-compatible OVA then a better approach (the approach
> that was previously proposed requires you to convert the vmdk disks
> separately) would be to copy the OVA file to one of the hosts managed by
> oVirt, change its permissions to vdsm:kvm, and import it using the import
> dialog in the virtual machines tab.
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Andy <farkey_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Ahh makes sense,  will give that a try.  thank you much for the info.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 8:21:43 AM EDT, Fred Rolland <
>> frolland at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> You can upload a disk in the "disks" tab.
>> You will need to create the VM manually, and attached the disk to it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Andy Kress <farkey_2000 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I am using the latest version of Ovirt 4.1.1.8-1 running in CentOS 7.3
>> and would like to import an OVA.  Since it appears the image-uploader
>> utility is deprecated, does anyone have information on how to accomplish
>> this?
>> I cannot import it through the UI directly and rather than importing the
>> OVA to a VMWARE environment and pulling it in, I would like to know how to
>> directly do this.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> AK
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