>>On 21/10/14 02:27, Paul Jansen wrote: >>>I've just been doing some searching
>>to try and work out how to get a >>>vmware windows VM into ovirt. >>>It seems
>>that the newest virtv2v has dropped support for importing >>>from an ESXi
>>standalone machine - and now only works with vcenter. I >>>didn't have any
>>success with using the current virt-v2v attaching to >>>an ESXi host.
>>>>>>>>I've prepared the VM by first removing the vmware tools and have
>>>>>installled the various virtio drivers, as well as running the
>>>>>'mergeide' registry file to enable IDE. I've used 'qemu-img' to
>>>>>convirt this VMDK file to QCOW2. It does not appear that there is a
>>>>>straightforward way for me to import this new qcow2 disk into ovirt.
>>>>>>>>It seems my best option at the moment is to export the VMware VM as
>>>>>an OVA and then try and use a newer virt-v2v to import this into ovirt.
>>>>>Alternatively I could construct a VM in virt-manager and attach the
>>>>>converted qcow2 disk
to it, and then use virt-v2v to import this into >>>ovirt. >>>>>>Can someone
suggest an alternative course of action? It seems >>>strange that I can't just
import a disk into ovirt, construct a VM >>>and attach the disk. >>>>>>Is
there anything int he works to make this process easier? >>>>>>Thanks, >>>Paul
>>>
>Wrote this awhile back as a quick qcow to ovf implementation to import
>into ovirt-engine/rhevm. There are newer options but this does the job
>really quick. Will wrap the qcow image into an exploded ova structure or
>zipped. You can then import it directly into engine with
>engine-image-uploader.
> >https://jboggs.fedorapeople.org/guest-image-ovf-creator.py
Thanks for all the replies with suggestions on how to tackle this.
I've tried Joey's script above and it does the trick nicely.
Having 'qemu-img', Joey's script referenced above plus engine-image-uploader on
a machine allowed me to convert a VMDK file to QCOW2 and then push the resulant
QCOW2 disk - wrapped in a basic VM - up to my ovirt export domain.
From there I was able to import it as a template, and then create a machine
based on that template.
This was relatively simple.
I'm looking forward to seeing some integration in the oVirt UI that may handle
this in future.
I have a VMware vcenter installation and often use the 'deploy from OVF
template' menu item - which I just pass a http URI with the OVF/OVA and have it
deploy a VM on my cluster. This would be great to see in ovirt.
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