On 31/08/14 18:16, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 06:07:47PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote: >> On 08/29/2014 06:38 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote: >>> I have a template designed for VMware VMs, in OVA format. >>> >>> Is there a way I can import this template to oVirt, in order to create >>> an oVirt VM from it? >>> >>> virt-v2v seems designed to import VMs, not templates, and it whines >>> about no storage devices in the Guest (when using "-i ova -o rhev -os >>> <NFS_PATH_TO_EXPORT_DOMAIN>"). > > I guess we're talking about old virt-v2v here? > Shahar is writing a new OVA importer at the moment. > >>> Thanks, >>> Bob >>> >>> P.S. If of interest, the OVA tarball contains foo.ovf, foo.mf, and >>> system.vmdk. >> >> how is a tempalte different than a VM in VMWare land? >> in ovirt its: >> - not having snapshots >> - a notation on the ovf > > Matt any idea?
I've never looked in detail, but my understanding is that they're essentially identical, and that a template just has a flag set on it to mark it as a template. Please don't take that as gospel, though. Matt -- Matthew Booth Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team Phone: +442070094448 (UK) GPG ID: D33C3490 GPG FPR: 3733 612D 2D05 5458 8A8A 1600 3441 EA19 D33C 3490 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
