>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: virt-v2v >HTH >-- >Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards >Sven
Kieske
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Hi Sven.
Yes, I've had a look at that doco. I've even built up a Centos 7 machine and
installed the EL7.1 libguestfs preview, which contains the very recent 1.28
release of libguestfs.
I'd be most interested to hear peoples experiences doing these kinds of
operations.
I remeber Sandro was soliciting feedback about how the import process could be
improved not long ago. It seems this is still an area that needs a bit of
polish in ovirt - not to take away from the significant work that Richard Jones
in doing with libguestfs and the associated tools.
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