You could go old school and create an empty VM, with the right number of disks, how you want it to be setup, then dd if=/your/disks/one/at/a/time of=/the/empty/disks/created/by/ovirt
This happens on the storage server On Sep 24, 2015 5:58 PM, "Maurice James" <mja...@media-node.com> wrote: > It seems that oVirt is not recognizing the qcow2 images. I must convert it > to raw which will not work for me because they are too large when expanded > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Nir Soffer" <nsof...@redhat.com> > *To: *"Maurice James" <mja...@media-node.com> > *Cc: *"Shahar Havivi" <shav...@redhat.com>, "users" <users@ovirt.org> > *Sent: *Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:40:36 PM > *Subject: *Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Maurice James <mja...@media-node.com> > wrote: > >> >> What about the problem with the IDE drives? >> > > I think ide is limited to 4 drives, not sure why you see a limit of 3 > drives. > > Vdsm logs showing the errors you get would be very helpful to understand > this. > > Please open an ovirt bug for this, and attach vdsm logs. > > But if you can use ide drives (hdX?), why not use virtio (vdX)? You can > have 16 of these. > > >> "The second problem is that these disks are scsi and ti does not seem to >> work using the virtio-scsi selection. I tried selecting the IDE option, but >> there is a limit to the number of IDE disks that I can use." >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *"Nir Soffer" <nsof...@redhat.com> >> *To: *"Maurice James" <mja...@media-node.com> >> *Cc: *"Shahar Havivi" <shav...@redhat.com>, "users" <users@ovirt.org> >> *Sent: *Wednesday, September 23, 2015 1:16:49 PM >> >> *Subject: *Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem >> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Maurice James <mja...@media-node.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> To convert the images I used: >>> qemu-img convert 250.qcow2 -O raw 250.img -p >>> >> >> Sure this will expand the file to the full size, but why do you need raw >> image? ovirt works with qcow images. >> >> >>> oVirt will not allow me to have more than 3 IDE devices on a VM >>> >> >> What do you mean by "it does not seem to work using the virtio-scsi >> selection."? >> >> >>> Doesnt 3.6 only work on RHEL/Centos 7? >>> >> >> And Fedora 21/22. >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From: *"Nir Soffer" <nsof...@redhat.com> >>> *To: *"Maurice James" <mja...@media-node.com>, "Shahar Havivi" < >>> shav...@redhat.com> >>> *Cc: *"users" <users@ovirt.org> >>> *Sent: *Tuesday, September 22, 2015 7:37:58 PM >>> *Subject: *Re: [ovirt-users] Virtual appliance import question/problem >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Maurice James <mja...@media-node.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I have a virtual mail security appliance that I am trying to import >>>> into oVirt 3.5.4. The appliance was built for kvm. it has a total of 5 scsi >>>> disks. I can convert and copy the OS disk only because it expands its self >>>> to full size. >>>> >>>> The first problem that I have is that the disks expand to their full >>>> size when I convert the to an oVirt format >>>> >>> >>> How do you convert to ovirt format? >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> OS Disk >>>> mail.qcow2 (74M) converts to main.img (294M) >>>> >>>> >>>> Storage disks >>>> 250.qcow2 (256K) converts to 250.img (250GB) >>>> 1024.qcow2 (256K) converts to 1024.img (1TB) >>>> 2048.qcow2 (256K) converts to 2048.img (2TB) >>>> 4096.qvow2 (256K) converts to 4096.img (4TB) >>>> 8192.qcow2 (256K) converts to 8192.img (8TB) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The second problem is that these disks are scsi and ti does not seem to >>>> work using the virtio-scsi selection. I tried selecting the IDE option, but >>>> there is a limit to the number of IDE disks that I can use. >>>> >>> >>> Can you provide more details about "does not seem to work"? >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Virtualbox has no issues running the appliance that was distributed in >>>> the ova format. Any help would be appreciated >>>> >>> >>> ovirt-3.6 beta supports import from ova format; maybe you like to try it? >>> >>> Nir >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Users mailing list >>>> Users@ovirt.org >>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >
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