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

[Arik Hadas]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Arik Hadas <ahadas at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> Ah, ok... I retried with another VM, monitoring this time the behavior and
> I see at  15:45 the message
>
> Starting to convert Vm T-RHEL5-64
>
> Then up to 16:04 it remains in "Initializing"
> Only at 16:04 it begins the copying phase, with a "qemu-img convert"
> command at host side that starts copying from an image in /var/tmp to the
> chosen storage domain with an elapsed of about 3 minutes and final
> completion
> Previously I missed the final minutes of the process, so that I noticed
> only the "Initializing" Status step and the final "Down" Status of the
> VM....
>
>
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
> Ah, ok.
> This explains why I get this message while importing a VM without
> selecting "clone":
>
> VM T-RHEL7 has MAC address(es) 00:50:56:b0:0c:7d, which is/are out of its
> MAC pool definitions.
> ?
> In this case to assign an oVirt MAC between the setup ones, only way is to
> remove and add a new one or what?
>

After you imported the VM, yes.
During import, you can use the 'clone' option as you did before - it should
be fine as long as you're willing to have different identifiers (in most
cases, these identifiers have no functional implications).


>
> Gianluca
>
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