<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Bond, Darryl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dbond@nrggos.com.au" target="_blank">dbond@nrggos.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Is there a recommended way to import a VM from Vmware into oVirt with Cinder back end?<br>
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I have successfully created an image in the oVirt Import domain using virt-v2v. The image can be imported into NFS storage and works fine.<br>
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I can create new VMs with disks in the Cinder storage.<br>
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There does not seem to be any way of either:<br>
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a) Import directly into the cinder storage (regardless if the import has raw or qcow disks<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>virt-v2v may support this, as it is using qemu-img under the hood, but I guess we miss</div><div>the integration, passing the needed info from engine and accepting it in virt-v2v.</div><div><br></div><div>(Adding Shahar) </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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b) Move a disk from NFS storage into cinder<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Correct, this is not supported yet with cinder/ceph disks.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe you can do this manually:</div><div>- Import vm using v2v to nfs</div><div>- Create cinder/ceph volume in the correct size</div><div>- Copy the imported disk using "qemu-img convert" to the ceph volume</div><div> ceph disks are used as "rbd:poolname/volumename"</div><div> you also have to specify cephx auth, or copy ceph keyring to /etc/ceph/</div><div>- Detach the imported disk from the vm</div><div>- Attach the cinder/ceph disk to the vm</div><div><br></div><div>This work is planned for next version.</div><div><br></div><div>Nir</div></div></div></div>