Hi, John. The easiest way is to skip any conversion and copy the VHD directly from the SR to use as a template. This requires a file-based SR, either NFS or local EXT3. From the log entries you shared I can't tell what went wrong, so please share more of the log if you still need help with it.
Best regards, Kirk On 09/10/2014 08:52 AM, John Muckley wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have a VM which is on a standalone XenServer hypervisor. > > I want to bring this VM into cloudstack. > > I have tried exporting the VM to a .ova file, converting that to a VHD file > and importing. > It imported fine as a template, but upon trying to deploy that VM, I get a > 'failed to deploy' error. > > On examining the logs, I see the following error... > > INFO [c.c.h.x.r.CitrixResourceBase] (DirectAgent-272:ctx-c6aa3885) VM does > not exist on XenServer012ffb72-a098-41c8-8df4-e5682e074c38 > ERROR [c.c.v.VmWorkJobHandlerProxy] (Work-Job-Executor-152:job-836/job-837 > ctx-6951591f) Invocation exception, caused by: > com.cloud.exception.InsufficientServerCapacityException: Unable to create a > deployment for VM[User|i-4-84-VM]Scope=interface com.cloud.dc.DataCenter; id=1 > > XenServerXXX is the naming convention of our old xenservers that were > migrating away from... not sure how this info has ended up being in the cloud > logs. > > Anyway, ignoring the error, my actual question is this: what is the easiest / > most simple way to import existing VMs from a XenServer hypervisor into > cloudstack? > > I have accomplished this previously by messing around setting up NFS shares > etc, but I wondered what the tried and tested method would be rather than a > bodge it and hope it works method! > > Thanks! > > John > >
