Hello Itmar, thanks for sharing the Glance service idea - but one question:
All the info I found only mentions importing from glace [1]. Can you point out how to export VM images to a glance repository from oVirt? Until now I was not able to find this... Thanks! [1] http://ovedou.blogspot.de/2014/03/importing-glance-images-as-ovirt.html On Di, 2014-07-08 at 16:43 +0300, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 07/08/2014 12:54 AM, John Gardeniers wrote: > > Hi Sven, > > > > Thanks but that's really not a workable solution for us. I'm surprised > > there's no cleaner export/import mechanism. This is the only > > virtualization system I'm familiar with doesn't have a simple and > > straightforward way to export a VM to an external system. > > > > On the subject of support, my comments are related only to my personal > > experiences. Also, there's a huge difference between Red Hat and Ovirt - > > the Ovirt people care. :) > > a lot of the oVirt people are RHEV people too. We care about both. > I'm sorry to hear about your experience, and hope it will improve. > > there are several items in this area being worked on: > - Glance integration (available in 3.3) - allows you to export/import > disks to a glance service. the glance service can be connected to > multiple engine's concurrently. > > - as Sven mentioned, upcoming in 3.5, ability to attach/detach whole > storage domains. > > - still being discussed - ability to upload/download disks/vm's, and > ability to concurrently use simple nfs/posix shares. > > the glance option may be relevant to you, otherwise, > export-ship-files-import it is (or detach the export domain and attach > to the other engine) > > > > > regards, > > John > > > > > > On 07/07/14 16:52, Sven Kieske wrote: > >> Well, what you can do, is: > >> export this vm to an export domain, detach the domain from your DC, > >> > >> than tar.gz the whole export domain (use the sparse option if you got > >> thin provisioned disks) > >> then upload that tar.gz they have to put it on their storage, extract > >> and import the export storage domain, then import the vm. > >> > >> HTH > >> > >> PS: But I can't believe the redhat support is so bad, after all the > >> "ovirt support" is pretty good. > >> > >> Am 07.07.2014 00:12, schrieb John Gardeniers: > >>>> We each make some shared > >>> resources available to the other, so the normal method we use to > >>> transfer files is we upload them to a shared directory at the other end. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users@ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Daniel Helgenberger m box bewegtbild GmbH P: +49/30/2408781-22 F: +49/30/2408781-10 ACKERSTR. 19 D-10115 BERLIN www.m-box.de www.monkeymen.tv Geschäftsführer: Martin Retschitzegger / Michaela Göllner Handeslregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg / HRB 112767
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