On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 12:24 PM Nir Soffer <nsof...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 3:09 PM <nico...@devels.es> wrote:
> > We're running oVirt 4.4.8.6. We have uploaded a qcow2 image (metasploit
> > v.3, FWIW)
>
> Is it Metasploitable3-0.1.4.ova from the github releases page?
> https://github.com/brimstone/metasploitable3/releases
>
> If not, can you share the image? It will help if we can reproduce this
> problem
> locally with the same image you are using.
>
> > using the GUI (Storage -> Disks -> Upload -> Start). The
> > image is in qcow2 format.
>
> Did you convert the vmdk file from the ova to qcow2?
>
> > No options on the right side were checked. The
> > upload went smoothly, so we now tried to attach the disk to a VM.
> >
> > To do that, we opened the VM -> Disks -> Attach and selected the disk.
> > As interface, VirtIO-iSCSI was chosen, and the disk was marked as OS, so
> > the "bootable" checkbox was selected.
> >
> > The VM was later powered on, but when accessing the console the message
> > "No bootable device." appears. We're pretty sure this is a bootable
> > image, because it was tested on other virtualization infrastructure and
> > it boots well. We also tried to upload the image in RAW format but the
> > result is the same.
> >
> > What are we missing here? Is anything else needed to do so the disk is
> > bootable?
>
> It sounds like you converted an image from another virtualization
> system (virtualbox)
> to qcow2 format, which may not be good enough to use the virtual machine.
>
> oVirt supports importing OVA, but based on the UI, it supports only OVA
> created
> by oVirt.
>

That information message is incorrect, both OVAs that are created by
oVirt/RHV and OVAs that are created by VMware are supported
It could work for OVAs that are VMware-compatible though
Posted https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/pull/191 to emphasis that



>
> You can try virt-v2v - this is an example command, you need
> to fill in the {} parts:
>
> virt-v2v \
>     -i ova {path-to-ova-file} \
>     -o rhv-upload \
>     -oc https://{engine-address}/ovirt-engine/api \
>     -op {engine-password-file} \
>     -on {vm-name} \
>     -os {storrage-domain-name} \
>     -of qcow2 \
>     -oo rhv-cafile={engine-ca-file} \
>     -oo rhv-cluster={cluster-name}
>
> I tried to import the Metasploitable3-0.1.4.ova, and virt-v2 fails
> with this error:
>
>     virt-v2v: error: inspection could not detect the source guest (or
> physical machine).
>
> attached virt-v2v log.
>
> Nir
>
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