On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Alex Bartonek <a...@unix1337.com> wrote:

> Strange..   None of my VMs have the option of Exporting to either OVA or
> Export Domain.  It is grey'd out.  It would be awesome if I could do that
> with them running.
>

Yeah, that capability of exporting running VMs was discussed (and I even
started implementing it half a year ago [1]) but is not yet available.

[1] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/85806/


>
> oVirt has proven itself a very very valuable product in my homelab.
> Tickled to death to run this thing with a few forward facing sites, hosting
> my own cloud etc.
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> On May 13, 2018 7:00 AM, Jayme <jay...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> You should be able to do this without having to shut vm down
>
> On Sun, May 13, 2018, 7:04 AM Alex Bartonek, <a...@unix1337.com> wrote:
>
>> Just trying to make sure there isnt an easier way to do what I'm doing.
>> I dont have an HA environment in my homelab.  I have 3 VM's and I wanted
>> to copy them to my backup r710 which runs oVirt 4.2.  I basically shut down
>> my VM, exported it to an export domain on my primary r710.  Then detached
>> the export domain on the primary.  On my "standby" r710 I imported the
>> export domain from the primary r710, attached, activated and imported the
>> VM.  Worked as expected.
>>
>> I'm assuming this is the correct way to do so.  I've tried Export to OVA
>> but that didnt work like I wanted and I didnt care to keep messing with
>> that option.
>>
> Can you please elaborate on the issue you had with exporting to OVA?

>
>> Thanks
>> -Alex
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