[ovirt-users] oVirt 4.1: clone option of importing from VMware

[Arik Hadas]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 3:36 PM Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I'm doing some tests to import VMs from VMware and verify functionality.
>>> Great newcomer in 4.1
>>>
>>
>> It was added in 4.0, I believe.
>>
>
> Ah, ok. Never tried before from web admin gui.
> I confused in release notes of 4.1.0 with the feature:
> BZ 1294629 Improve loading external VMs speed
>
>
>
>>
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>>> And after about 20 minutes (the original VM has only one thin
>>> provisioned disk 4Gb/8Gb) the lock goes away and the status of the VM
>>> becomes down and in events pane I get only now the sequence:
>>>
>>
>>> Feb 27, 2017 2:20:42 PM Vm T-RHEL6-64 was imported successfully to Data
>>> Center Default, Cluster Default
>>>
>>
>> And this is the end of the task.
>>
>
> Yes, I mean that during the 20 minutes elapsed time, it results that no
> tasks are in execution.
> Is this correct because it is considered a sort of external task or is it
> a bug?
>
>
>
>>
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>>> It seems to me not so clear experience for the user importing,
>>> especially I imagine in case of more than one import and with big disks.
>>>
>>
>> I guess as always, we could try to improve with progress bar...
>>
>
> I didn't refer to it (see above), but for sure it could be a nice add-on
> feature to provide.
>

Actually there is a progress bar for the phase of disks copying (after the
'initialization' phase) in the 'status' column of the virtual machines tab.


>
> And what about the "clone" option? In what is it different from no
> selection of it?
>

That means that the VM will be imported as a cloned VM - have different mac
addresses, different identifiers for the disks, different identifier for
the VM.


>
> Thanks,
> Gianluca
>
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