----- Original Message ----- > I've just been doing some searching to try and work out how to get a vmware > windows VM into ovirt. > It seems that the newest virtv2v has dropped support for importing from an > ESXi standalone machine - and now only works with vcenter. I didn't have > any success with using the current virt-v2v attaching to an ESXi host. > > > I've prepared the VM by first removing the vmware tools and have installled > the various virtio drivers, as well as running the 'mergeide' registry file > to enable IDE. I've used 'qemu-img' to convirt this VMDK file to QCOW2. It > does not appear that there is a straightforward way for me to import this > new qcow2 disk into ovirt. > > It seems my best option at the moment is to export the VMware VM as an OVA > and then try and use a newer virt-v2v to import this into ovirt.
Hey Paul, I think the OVA is what you need for Engine. Once you get that file you can import it. So: Use the OVA offered by the VMWare thing, or use a script like this one: http://jenkins.ovirt.org/user/fabiand/my-views/view/Node/job/ovirt-appliance_engine-3.5_master_merged/ws/ovirt-appliance/engine-appliance/scripts/create_ova.py depends on https://github.com/redhat-imaging/imagefactory To convert the qcow2 to an OVA. - fabian > Alternatively I could construct a VM in virt-manager and attach the converted > qcow2 disk to it, and then use virt-v2v to import this into ovirt. > > Can someone suggest an alternative course of action? It seems strange that I > can't just import a disk into ovirt, construct a VM and attach the disk. > > Is there anything int he works to make this process easier? > > Thanks, > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
