<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Rich,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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> I can try this but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. The ovf I created<br>
> via guest-image-ovf-creator is on an NFS mount<br>
> on the engine: do I need to run virt-v2v on one of the nodes? If so, I<br>
> assume I need to set the output to an export domain.<br>
> Does '-o local' stick it on the node's VM storage?<br>
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</span>Yes, don't use -o local.<br>
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virt-v2v has an -o rhev option which will import directly from VMware<br>
to RHEV or oVirt. Please see the manual:<br>
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<a href="http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#convert-from-vmware-to-rhev-m-ovirt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#convert-from-vmware-to-rhev-m-ovirt</a><br>
<a href="http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#output-to-rhev" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#output-to-rhev</a><br>
<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm using 'virt-v2v -v -i ova wvm2.ovf -o rhev -os ovirt-engine:/mnt/export-vm' (my export domain), though unfortunately it fails</div><div><br></div><div>Error is:</div><div><br></div><div><div>[root@kvm-ldn-01 tmp]# virt-v2v -v -x -i ova wvm2.ovf -o rhev -os ovirt-engine:/mnt/export-vm</div><div>virt-v2v: libguestfs 1.28.1 (x86_64)</div><div>[ 0.0] Opening the source -i ova wvm2.ovf</div><div>tar -xzf 'wvm2.ovf' -C '/var/tmp/ova.dEFSqi'</div><div>virt-v2v: error: could not parse ovf:Name from OVF document</div><div><br></div><div>If reporting bugs, run virt-v2v with debugging enabled and include the </div><div>complete output:</div><div><br></div><div> virt-v2v -v -x [...]</div><div>[root@kvm-ldn-01 tmp]</div></div><div><br></div><div>I can attach the XML ovf file that is is inside the ovf archive if that is a help.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW: is there a way of specifying the extraction directory? My first attempt filled up /var/tmp until I found another host</div><div>that luckily had a big enough partition.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Cam</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><font color="#888888">
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