On 21/10/14 02:27, 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?
Thanks,
Paul
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I have not found a way to import qcow2 disk into oVirt.
The last time I needed to import a qcow2 disk to oVirt I created a vm in
a kvm server (my pc..) with virt-manager, then I added the qcow disk,
and booted the vm with clonezilla. Then I created a VM in oVirt,
provisioned with similar disks and booted also with clonezilla. Then I
cloned from kvm to oVirt. After I deleted the native kvm vm and disks.
In this way I bypassed all the import, export, ova compatibility,
virt2virt, etc.
Simple and practical
Regards
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