RHEV import

[ESGLinux]

Hi Marius,

I have tried what you say but for me it doesn´t work, I get the error that
the VM doesn´t exist..

I´m going on xmas holidays, so I hope the new year 2010 comes with more luck
with the REHV,

so, see you next year and merry Christmas for all :-)

ESG

2009/12/23 Marius Pana <marius.pana at spanning.ro>

> Hi ESG,
>
> It's a bit tricky. First you create a new vm in RHEV (give it the same hw
> as on of the converted vm's) and make sure you create a pre-allocated disk
> the same size as the disk of the converted vm. Log-on to one of your
> hypervisors and run mount to see where the disk store is mounted. Go there
> and find the disk of the vm you just created :). I dont have a sure way to
> identify the vm/disk that you created from the web interface. First and last
> time I tried I did an ls of (I think?) vms/images directory, created the new
> vm from the web interface and noticed that a new id (directory) appeared
> after another ls. Then I just dd'ed the converted image of the pre-allocated
> disk and started up. Everything worked like a charm.
>
> I am hoping to work more closely on this in the following week.
>
> I think you can get the id of the vm/disk from powershell and this should
> make things easier. This I intend to find out next time I have some free
> time.
>
> Regards,
> Marius
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 7:55 PM
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> Subject: Re: RHEV import
>
> Hi again Marius,
>
> Now I´m at the point where you are, (I have followed the steps described in
> this page
>
> http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/convert-vmware-vmdk-to-kvm-qcow2-or-virtualbox-vdi/
> )
> and now I have one vmware image converted to kvm,
>
> Now I have not idea about how to import this image in the RHEV-M.
>
> Here there are the documentation about RHEV but I don´t see how to do what
> we want to do:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/
>
> any idea
>
> ESG
>
> 2009/12/21 Marius Pana <marius.pana at spanning.ro>
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Anyone know how to import exiting vm's into RHEV-M?
> >
> > I've played around with vmware images that I converted using qemu-img
> > and tried to copy it over an existing disk but this is painful as I
> > can't figure out the id of the vms (/rhev/data-center/xxxx/ gets pretty
> > ugly).
> >
> > Using the powershell API and select-vm I get id's but they are not under
> > the /rhev/data-center directory therefore I cannot pin down the virtual
> > machine disks?
> >
> > Any information is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Marius
> >
> >
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