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
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