Backup KVM Guest VM in OVA or VMDK format

[Kaushal Shriyan]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 12:28 AM Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 9:39 PM Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM in kvmguestosimage.ova or
>> kvmguestosimage.vmdk format as I am trying to restore it in AWS by
>> referring to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/ article as per the
>> below supported file format.
>>
>> [1] Open Virtualization Archive (OVA)
>> [2] Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK)
>> [3] Virtual Hard Disk (VHD/VHDX)
>> [4] raw
>>
>> Also any method to take full and incremental backup of KVM Guest VM.
>>
>> Any help will be highly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you.
>> Thanks in Advance.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Kaushal
>>
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> Checking in again if someone can pitch in for my earlier post to this
> mailing list. Thanks in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Kaushal
>

Hi,

I followed the below steps by referring to
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmimport-image-import.html
.

# qemu-img -h | grep Supported
Supported formats: blkdebug blklogwrites blkverify compress
copy-before-write copy-on-read file ftp ftps gluster host_cdrom host_device
http https iscsi iser luks nbd null-aio null-co nvme preallocate qcow2
quorum raw rbd ssh throttle vhdx vmdk vpc

# qemu-img --version
qemu-img version 6.2.0 (qemu-kvm-6.2.0-12.module_el8.7.0+1140+ff0772f9)
Copyright (c) 2003-2021 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
#

*Step No. 1*
#qemu-img convert -O vmdk openapibox.img openapibox.vmdk -p

*Step No. 2*
#aws ec2 import-image --disk-containers
Format=vmdk,UserBucket="{S3Bucket=daclabservers,S3Key=openapidbox.vmdk}"
{
    "ImportTaskId": "import-ami-0232f452194f6efe0",
    "Progress": "1",
    "SnapshotDetails": [
        {
            "DiskImageSize": 0.0,
            "Format": "VMDK",
            "UserBucket": {
                "S3Bucket": "daclabservers",
                "S3Key": "openapibox.vmdk"
            }
        }
    ],
    "Status": "active",
    "StatusMessage": "pending"
}

*Step No. 3*
#aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks --import-task-ids
import-ami-0232f452194f6efe0
{
    "ImportImageTasks": [
        {
            "ImportTaskId": "import-ami-0232f452194f6efe0",
            "SnapshotDetails": [
                {
                    "DiskImageSize": 0.0,
                    "Status": "completed"
                }
            ],
            "Status": "deleted",
            "StatusMessage": "ClientError: Disk validation failed
[Unsupported VMDK File Format]",
            "Tags": []
        }
    ]
}

Please guide me. Am I missing anything? Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal
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