On 21/10/14 07:27, Paul Jansen wrote: > 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?
Did you consult the documentation of virt-v2v ? Imho all the information you need is there, but I didn't test this myself so ymmv. Here's the link: http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html HTH -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
