On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 1:38 AM Nir Soffer <nsof...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 7:29 PM KK CHN <kkchn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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 ?
>
> RHV undefine the vms when they are not running.
>
> > 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.
> >
> If the vm is not running you can get the vm configuration from ovirt
> using the API:
>
>     GET /api/vms/{vm-id}
>
> You may need more API calls to get info about the disks, follow the <links>
> in the returned xml.
>
> > 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 ?
>
> Arik can add more info on exporting.
>
> >   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 ?)
>
> You have 2 options:
> - Download the disks using the SDK
> - Export the VM to OVA
>
> When exporting to OVA, you will always get qcow2 images, which you can
> later
> convert to raw using "qemu-img convert"
>
> When downloading the disks, you control the image format, for example
> this will download
> the disk in any format, collapsing all snapshots to the raw format:
>
>  $ python3
> /usr/share/doc/python3-ovirt-engine-sdk4/examples/download_disk.py
> -c engine-dev 3649d84b-6f35-4314-900a-5e8024e3905c /var/tmp/disk1.raw
>
> To perform this which modules/packages need to be installed in the rhevm
host node ?  Does the rhevm hosts come with python3 installed by default ?
or I need to install  python3 on rhevm node ? Then  using pip3 to install
the  download_disk.py / what the module name to install this sdk ?  any
dependency before installing this sdk ? like java need to be installed on
the rhevm node ?

One doubt:  came across  virt v2v while google search,  can virtv2v  be
used in rhevm node to export VMs to images ?  or only from other
hypervisors   to rhevm only virt v2v supports ?

This requires ovirt.conf file:       // ovirt.conf file need to be created
? or already there  in any rhevm node?

>
> $ cat ~/.config/ovirt.conf
> [engine-dev]
> engine_url = https://engine-dev
> username = admin@internal
> password = mypassword
> cafile = /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/cacert.pem
>
> Nir
>
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 8:22 PM Nir Soffer <nsof...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 12:22 PM <kkchn...@gmail.com> 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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