Sharing the thread below with the list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shao-Da Huang <sdhuan...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:23 AM Subject: Re: question about importing VMware-produced OVA To: Arik Hadas <aha...@redhat.com>
2018-03-13 15:51 GMT+08:00 Arik Hadas <aha...@redhat.com>: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 6:10 AM, Shao-Da Huang <sdhuan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Arik, >> >> I'm Michael, an oVirt user from Taiwan, and I'm trying to import OVAs >> produced by VMware into my data center. >> I've tried the functionality in the 'Virtual Machine' tab -> Import -> >> Source 'VMware Virtual Appliance (OVA)', but I wanna know that is there a >> corresponding REST API so I can use it to automate this procedure? >> >> I found the >> POST /externalvmimports API, >> but it seems not to be used for OVA. >> > > Hi Michael, > > You can import an OVA via REST-API using that post command. Let's say that > you would like to import an OVA that is located in /home/user/vm.ova on > host 'myhost' then you should set the host to 'myhost', the URL to > 'ova:///home/user/vm.ova' and the provider to VMware. > > Please let me know if that did the trick. > Thank you very much! It works! > Btw, any reason not to send this to the users-list? > If no such REST API exists, how to use CLI commands combinations to achieve >> the same goal as in the engine UI? >> >> Could you give me some advices? >> > >
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