Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Simone Tiraboschi]

- Original Message -
> From: "Michal Skrivanek" 
> To: "Sven Kieske" 
> Cc: mad196...@gmail.com, users@ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, August 4, 2014 5:33:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm
> 
> 
> On Aug 4, 2014, at 17:26 , Sven Kieske  wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Am 03.08.2014 21:35, schrieb Itamar Heim:
> >> On 06/30/2014 09:50 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
> >>> No, as far as I know this is _not_ on the roadmap.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> actually it is.
> >> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration
> >> 
> >> one of my comments to the feature page was it should include a file
> >> based conversion, not just from esxi.
> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025876.html
> > 
> > No, it's not:
> > 
> > "Offline VMware images (OVAs), not yet.  However patches are welcome.
> > We quite literally have no one available to implement this."[1]
> > 
> > 
> > [1]http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025881.html
> > 
> > Or has this changed yet? This would be great news!
> 
> well, it is in the plan to do that, so "yes, it's on the roadmap"
> is it done? no, not yet…
> We're hoping to get it in for 3.6 timeframe…

By the way, how are you going to copy the VM between the two system?
As far as I know scp doesn't handle really well with sparse files (and thin 
provisioned VMs are sparse files) ending up copying the fully expanded disk 
image wasting a lot of time just transferring zeroes.

Some third party utilities, like virtsync for the KVM world 
(http://www.virtsync.com/) or Veam FastSCP 
(http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esxi-fastscp.html) for the VMWare world, already 
implement some smarter copy approach (also a tar with -S option over an ssh 
pipe is indeed enough) to make it more efficient and they are quite appreciated.

Are we designing something similar?

thanks,
Simone
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Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Sven Kieske]

Am 04.08.2014 17:33, schrieb Michal Skrivanek:
> well, it is in the plan to do that, so "yes, it's on the roadmap"
> is it done? no, not yet…
> We're hoping to get it in for 3.6 timeframe…

Thanks for the update!

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Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Sven Kieske]

Am 03.08.2014 21:35, schrieb Itamar Heim:
> On 06/30/2014 09:50 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
>> No, as far as I know this is _not_ on the roadmap.
>>
> 
> actually it is.
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration
> 
> one of my comments to the feature page was it should include a file
> based conversion, not just from esxi.
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025876.html

No, it's not:

"Offline VMware images (OVAs), not yet.  However patches are welcome.
We quite literally have no one available to implement this."[1]


[1]http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025881.html

Or has this changed yet? This would be great news!

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Sven Kieske

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Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Aug 4, 2014, at 17:26 , Sven Kieske  wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 03.08.2014 21:35, schrieb Itamar Heim:
>> On 06/30/2014 09:50 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
>>> No, as far as I know this is _not_ on the roadmap.
>>> 
>> 
>> actually it is.
>> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration
>> 
>> one of my comments to the feature page was it should include a file
>> based conversion, not just from esxi.
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025876.html
> 
> No, it's not:
> 
> "Offline VMware images (OVAs), not yet.  However patches are welcome.
> We quite literally have no one available to implement this."[1]
> 
> 
> [1]http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025881.html
> 
> Or has this changed yet? This would be great news!

well, it is in the plan to do that, so "yes, it's on the roadmap"
is it done? no, not yet…
We're hoping to get it in for 3.6 timeframe…

Thanks,
michal

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Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/30/2014 09:50 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:

No, as far as I know this is _not_ on the roadmap.



actually it is.
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration

one of my comments to the feature page was it should include a file 
based conversion, not just from esxi.

http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025876.html




Am 27.06.2014 21:02, schrieb Massimo Mad:

But it's in the roadmap a gui converter v2v, or better, insert a menu in
the manager where i can import several type of vm like .ovf or .vmk
Thanks,




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Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Sven Kieske]

No, as far as I know this is _not_ on the roadmap.


Am 27.06.2014 21:02, schrieb Massimo Mad:
> But it's in the roadmap a gui converter v2v, or better, insert a menu in
> the manager where i can import several type of vm like .ovf or .vmk
> Thanks,

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Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Massimo Mad]

Hello,
But it's in the roadmap a gui converter v2v, or better, insert a menu in
the manager where i can import several type of vm like .ovf or .vmk
Thanks,
Massimo



2014-06-27 13:40 GMT+02:00 Sandro Bonazzola :

> Il 27/06/2014 07:41, Koen Vanoppen ha scritto:
> > II created this document for the company where I work. Maybe it is
> userfull for you too:
> >
> > Migrate from VMWare to oVirt
> >
> > 1.On VmWare:
> >
> > a.Export the VM to ovf format. There is a smb/nfs share on virt-v2v
> you can use as storage.
> > i.NFS: Virtv2v.:/media/Storage
> > ii.SMB: virtv2v.  share: virtv2v
> >
> > 2.with virtv2v
> >
> > a.Log in on the virt-v2v vm.
> > b.Locate and Extract the ovf file with tar –xvf
> > c.Convert the extracted vmdk file to raw disk format with the
> following command:
> > vboxmanage clonehd --format RAW .vmdk .raw
> > d.Convert the created RAW file to a qemu2 img:
> > qemu-img convert -f raw .raw -O qcow2 .qcow2
> > e.Run the vm in virsh:
> > virt-install --connect qemu:///system --ram 1024 -n griffu -r 2048
> --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel6 --disk
> > path=/media/Storage/.qcow2,device=disk,format=qcow2 --vcpus=2
> --vnc --noautoconsole –import
> > f.Take a xml dump of the VM and copy the result in a new file
> .xml
> > virsh dumpxml 
> > g.Now let’s move the vm to ovirt. Make sure the nfs is attached to
> the TestDev Datacenter.
> > virt-v2v -i libvirtxml -ic qemu+ssh:// /system -o rhev
> -os :/media/NfsProgress -n ovirtmgmt
> .xml
>
>
> Can you create a page on oVirt Wiki?
> I think it may be useful to have this there too.
> Thanks!
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 2014-06-24 15:19 GMT+02:00 Massimo Mad  mad196...@gmail.com>>:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I downloaded an image .vmdk from a repository and wanted to import
> it into my oVirt infrastructure.
> > Is it possible?
> > If it is possible how?
> > Thanks,
> > Massimo
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Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Sven Kieske]

I just did that at:

http://www.ovirt.org/Vm_migration_from_vmware

feel free to make this pretty, it's more or less just a raw dump of the
mail.

Am 27.06.2014 13:40, schrieb Sandro Bonazzola:
> Can you create a page on oVirt Wiki?
> I think it may be useful to have this there too.
> Thanks!

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Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Sandro Bonazzola]

Il 27/06/2014 07:41, Koen Vanoppen ha scritto:
> II created this document for the company where I work. Maybe it is userfull 
> for you too:
> 
> Migrate from VMWare to oVirt
> 
> 1.On VmWare:
> 
> a.Export the VM to ovf format. There is a smb/nfs share on virt-v2v you 
> can use as storage. 
> i.NFS: Virtv2v.:/media/Storage
> ii.SMB: virtv2v.  share: virtv2v
> 
> 2.with virtv2v
> 
> a.Log in on the virt-v2v vm.
> b.Locate and Extract the ovf file with tar –xvf
> c.Convert the extracted vmdk file to raw disk format with the following 
> command:
> vboxmanage clonehd --format RAW .vmdk .raw
> d.Convert the created RAW file to a qemu2 img:
> qemu-img convert -f raw .raw -O qcow2 .qcow2
> e.Run the vm in virsh:
> virt-install --connect qemu:///system --ram 1024 -n griffu -r 2048 
> --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel6 --disk
> path=/media/Storage/.qcow2,device=disk,format=qcow2 --vcpus=2 --vnc 
> --noautoconsole –import
> f.Take a xml dump of the VM and copy the result in a new file .xml
> virsh dumpxml 
> g.Now let’s move the vm to ovirt. Make sure the nfs is attached to the 
> TestDev Datacenter.
> virt-v2v -i libvirtxml -ic qemu+ssh:// /system -o rhev -os 
> :/media/NfsProgress -n ovirtmgmt .xml


Can you create a page on oVirt Wiki?
I think it may be useful to have this there too.
Thanks!

> 
> 
> 
> 2014-06-24 15:19 GMT+02:00 Massimo Mad  >:
> 
> Hello,
> I downloaded an image .vmdk from a repository and wanted to import it 
> into my oVirt infrastructure.
> Is it possible?
> If it is possible how?
> Thanks,
> Massimo
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Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Koen Vanoppen]

II created this document for the company where I work. Maybe it is userfull
for you too:

Migrate from VMWare to oVirt

1.On VmWare:

a.Export the VM to ovf format. There is a smb/nfs share on virt-v2v you
can use as storage.
i.NFS: Virtv2v.:/media/Storage
ii.SMB: virtv2v.  share: virtv2v

2.with virtv2v

a.Log in on the virt-v2v vm.
b.Locate and Extract the ovf file with tar –xvf
c.Convert the extracted vmdk file to raw disk format with the following
command:
vboxmanage clonehd --format RAW .vmdk .raw
d.Convert the created RAW file to a qemu2 img:
qemu-img convert -f raw .raw -O qcow2 .qcow2
e.Run the vm in virsh:
virt-install --connect qemu:///system --ram 1024 -n griffu -r 2048
--os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel6 --disk
path=/media/Storage/.qcow2,device=disk,format=qcow2 --vcpus=2 --vnc
--noautoconsole –import
f.Take a xml dump of the VM and copy the result in a new file
.xml
virsh dumpxml 
g.Now let’s move the vm to ovirt. Make sure the nfs is attached to the
TestDev Datacenter.
virt-v2v -i libvirtxml -ic qemu+ssh:// /system -o rhev -os
:/media/NfsProgress -n ovirtmgmt .xml



2014-06-24 15:19 GMT+02:00 Massimo Mad :

> Hello,
> I downloaded an image .vmdk from a repository and wanted to import it into
> my oVirt infrastructure.
> Is it possible?
> If it is possible how?
> Thanks,
> Massimo
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[ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Massimo Mad]

Hello,
I downloaded an image .vmdk from a repository and wanted to import it into
my oVirt infrastructure.
Is it possible?
If it is possible how?
Thanks,
Massimo
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Re: [ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Sven Kieske]

Am 24.06.2014 15:35, schrieb Massimo Mad:
> Hello,
> I downloaded an image .vmdk from a repository and wanted to import it into
> my oVirt infrastructure.
> Is it possible?
> If it is possible how?
> Thanks,
> Massimo

you need a running vmware server (esxi I believe) which
runs your vmdk image as a vm.
you can then connect to this vmware server and convert
the vm with the virt-v2v tool for ovirt, there is good
documentation for the exact process on the web and on this MLs
archives.

I know this is really much overhead for just converting an image
but afaik it's the only supported way to do this.

there is a bug with an request for enhancement to make this process
simpler, you could add yourself to the cc list, to encourage the devs
to pick this topic up faster (currently nobody works on this!):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049604

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[ovirt-users] Convert vmware vm

[Massimo Mad]

Hello,
I downloaded an image .vmdk from a repository and wanted to import it into
my oVirt infrastructure.
Is it possible?
If it is possible how?
Thanks,
Massimo
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