[ovirt-users] Exporting VM as ova

[Derek Atkins]

Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi at redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:23:04 -0500
> Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
>> Can virt-v2v convert back from ovirt format to VMware format?
>
> If you're asking about VM conversion then the answer is no. virt-v2v
> converts only to KVM, not the other way around.

Oh, that's too bad.  I wonder how hard it would be to add that?

Is there any way to take a VM from ovirt and migrate it to VMware?

> If you're asking about the disks then the question is incorrect. The
> right tool for this kind of operation is qemu-img. And yes, it can
> convert from raw/QCow2 to VMDK.

Converting a disk is only part of the issue!  I need to perform the same
operations virt-v2v does to convert from VMware to ovirt, but do it in
reverse.

>     Tomas

-derek
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