Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt 4.0.5 how to import an OVA appliance

[Maton, Brett]

Thanks Gianluca,

  I'll give it a go and let you know what (if) works.

On 16 November 2016 at 13:29, Gianluca Cecchi 
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Maton, Brett 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I downloaded an OVA image from OpenVAS but I can't import it into
>> ovirt, any suggestions ?
>>
>> engine-image-uploader -e Export upload /tmp/OpenVAS-8-DEMO-1.0.ova
>> WARNING: ovirt-image-uploader is deprecated in 4.0 and will be removed in
>> 4.1
>> Please provide the REST API password for the admin@internal oVirt Engine
>> user (CTRL+D to abort):
>> ERROR: not a gzip file
>>
>>
>>
> Unfortunately, OVA is a generic term describing a container for a VM/group
> of VMs definitions but it is implemented in different ways.
> From OpenVAS website it seems their OVA format is for Virtualbox >= 4.3...
> correct?
>
> You could try to export the disk file/s with VirtualBox command line tool
> VBoxManage (never tried myself):
> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html
>
> Or eventually follow what described in this thread, that implies to import
> the OVA into a VirtualBox environment and then re-export it for oVirt with
> the steps described:
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-December/036371.html
>
> HIH,
> Gianluca
>
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Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt 4.0.5 how to import an OVA appliance

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Maton, Brett 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I downloaded an OVA image from OpenVAS but I can't import it into ovirt,
> any suggestions ?
>
> engine-image-uploader -e Export upload /tmp/OpenVAS-8-DEMO-1.0.ova
> WARNING: ovirt-image-uploader is deprecated in 4.0 and will be removed in
> 4.1
> Please provide the REST API password for the admin@internal oVirt Engine
> user (CTRL+D to abort):
> ERROR: not a gzip file
>
>
>
Unfortunately, OVA is a generic term describing a container for a VM/group
of VMs definitions but it is implemented in different ways.
>From OpenVAS website it seems their OVA format is for Virtualbox >= 4.3...
correct?

You could try to export the disk file/s with VirtualBox command line tool
VBoxManage (never tried myself):
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html

Or eventually follow what described in this thread, that implies to import
the OVA into a VirtualBox environment and then re-export it for oVirt with
the steps described:
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-December/036371.html

HIH,
Gianluca
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[ovirt-users] Ovirt 4.0.5 how to import an OVA appliance

[Maton, Brett]

Hi,

  I downloaded an OVA image from OpenVAS but I can't import it into ovirt,
any suggestions ?

engine-image-uploader -e Export upload /tmp/OpenVAS-8-DEMO-1.0.ova
WARNING: ovirt-image-uploader is deprecated in 4.0 and will be removed in
4.1
Please provide the REST API password for the admin@internal oVirt Engine
user (CTRL+D to abort):
ERROR: not a gzip file
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