I have asked our VM maintainer to run the  command

# virsh -r dumpxml vm-name_blah    //as Super user

But no output :   No matching domains found that was the TTY  output on
that rhevm node when I executed the command.

Then I tried to execute #  virsh list     //  it doesn't list any VMs  !!!
 ( How come this ? Does the Rhevm node need to enable any CLI  with License
key or something to list Vms or  to dumpxml   with   virsh ? or its CLI
commands ?

Any way I want to know what I have to ask the   maintainer    to provide a
working a working  CLI   or ? which do the tasks expected to do with
command line utilities in rhevm.

I have one more question :    Which command can I execute on an rhevm node
to manually export ( not through GUI portal) a   VMs to   required format  ?

For example;   1.  I need to get  one  VM and disks attached to it  as raw
images.  Is this possible how?

and another    2. VM and disk attached to it as  Ova or( what other good
format) which suitable to upload to glance ?


  Each VMs are around 200 to 300 GB with disk volumes ( so where should be
the images exported to which path to specify ? to the host node(if the host
doesn't have space  or NFS mount ? how to specify the target location where
the VM image get stored in case of NFS mount ( available ?)

Thanks in advance


On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 8:22 PM Nir Soffer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 12:22 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I have  few VMs in   Redhat Virtualisation environment  RHeV ( using
> Rhevm4.1 ) managed by a third party
> >
> > Now I am in the process of migrating  those VMs to  my cloud setup with
> OpenStack ussuri  version  with KVM hypervisor and Glance storage.
> >
> > The third party is making down each VM and giving the each VM image
> with their attached volume disks along with it.
> >
> > There are three folders  which contain images for each VM .
> > These folders contain the base OS image, and attached LVM disk images (
> from time to time they added hard disks  and used LVM for storing data )
> where data is stored.
> >
> > Is there a way to  get all these images to be exported as  Single image
> file Instead of  multiple image files from Rhevm it self.  Is this possible
> ?
> >
> > If possible how to combine e all these disk images to a single image and
> that image  can upload to our  cloud  glance storage as a single image ?
>
> It is not clear what is the vm you are trying to export. If you share
> the libvirt xml
> of this vm it will be more clear. You can use "sudo virsh -r dumpxml
> vm-name".
>
> RHV supports download of disks to one image per disk, which you can move
> to another system.
>
> We also have export to ova, which creates one tar file with all exported
> disks,
> if this helps.
>
> Nir
>
>
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