Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-23 Thread René Koch
Hi, I did some migrations with v2v and p2v (most of them to RHEV, but there's not really a difference between RHEV and oVirt). Sources where VMware ESX, KVM-servers (hosted on RHEL and Debian), Xen (hosted on an old SUSE server) and physical machines for p2v. The servers I used to run virt-v2v

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-20 Thread Sander Grendelman
FWIW, importing directly from an ESX server still works: virt-v2v-host: - RHEL/CentOS 6.5 physical host ( virt-v2v uses qemu-kvm = extra++ slow on a VM) - Packages: virt-v2v-0.9.1-5.el6_5.x86_64 libguestfs-winsupport-1.0-7.el6.x86_64 libguestfs-tools-c-1.20.11-2.el6.x86_64

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Sander Grendelman wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com wrote: I see a lot of threads about v2v pains (mostly from ESX?) I'm interested to see if we can make this simpler/easier. hear hear! if you have

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-20 Thread Itamar Heim
On 01/20/2014 11:53 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Sander Grendelman wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com wrote: I see a lot of threads about v2v pains (mostly from ESX?) I'm interested to see if we can make this

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-20 Thread Matthew Booth
On 20/01/14 09:53, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Sander Grendelman wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com wrote: I see a lot of threads about v2v pains (mostly from ESX?) I'm interested to see if we can make this

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-20 Thread Itamar Heim
On 01/20/2014 12:18 PM, Matthew Booth wrote: On 20/01/14 09:53, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Sander Grendelman wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com wrote: I see a lot of threads about v2v pains (mostly from ESX?) I'm

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-20 Thread Matthew Booth
On 20/01/14 10:36, Itamar Heim wrote: On 01/20/2014 12:18 PM, Matthew Booth wrote: On 20/01/14 09:53, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Sander Grendelman wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com wrote: I see a lot of threads about

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-20 Thread Sander Grendelman
Is there a specification for the ovf/xml/directory structure in the export domain we can use to (semi)manually import an ovirt-compatible machine to an export domain? On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Matthew Booth mbo...@redhat.com wrote: On 20/01/14 10:36, Itamar Heim wrote: On 01/20/2014

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-20 Thread Ted Miller
Unfortunately I have not ESX or ESXi server. These VMs were running on a VMWare Server. Ted On 1/20/2014 4:23 AM, Sander Grendelman wrote: FWIW, importing directly from an ESX server still works: virt-v2v-host: - RHEL/CentOS 6.5 physical host ( virt-v2v uses qemu-kvm = extra++ slow on a VM)

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-19 Thread Ted Miller
On 01/17/2014 10:19 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: I see a lot of threads about v2v pains (mostly from ESX?) I'm interested to see if we can make this simpler/easier. if you have experience with this, please describe the steps you are using (also the source platform), and how you would like to see

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-19 Thread Markus Stockhausen
Von: users-boun...@ovirt.org [users-boun...@ovirt.org]quot; im Auftrag von quot;Itamar Heim [ih...@redhat.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Januar 2014 16:19 An: users users@ovirt.org Betreff: [Users] Making v2v easier? I see a lot of threads about v2v pains (mostly from ESX?) I'm interested

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-19 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Ted Miller wrote: * BEAT HEAD AGAINST WALL because virt-v2v.x86_64 0.9.1-5.el6_5 from Centos updates doesn't seem to know about .ova files. I was following the instructions in Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization-3.3-Beta-V2V_Guide-en-US.pdf guide, but I

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-19 Thread Amedeo Salvati
Il 19/01/2014 06:55, Blaster ha scritto: On Jan 18, 2014, at 2:25 AM, Amedeo Salvati ame...@oscert.net wrote: regarding virtio drivers, on linux, and if your kernel support them, you can recreate / regenerate initram f.s., and then you can boot your vm linux coming from vmware with virtio

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-19 Thread Ted Miller
I am wide open to suggestions (see discussion at bottom, as usual). On 1/19/2014 5:25 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Ted Miller wrote: * BEAT HEAD AGAINST WALL because virt-v2v.x86_64 0.9.1-5.el6_5 from Centos updates doesn't seem to know about .ova files. I was

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-19 Thread Sander Grendelman
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1749.html This update fixes the following bug: * An update to virt-v2v included upstream support for the import of OVA images exported by VMware servers. Unfortunately, testing has shown that VMDK images created by recent versions of VMware ESX cannot be

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-18 Thread Amedeo Salvati
Il 17/01/2014 17:25, users-requ...@ovirt.org ha scritto: Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:06:13 +0100 From: Sander Grendelman san...@grendelman.com To: Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com Cc: users users@ovirt.org users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] Making v2v easier? Message-ID

[Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-17 Thread Itamar Heim
I see a lot of threads about v2v pains (mostly from ESX?) I'm interested to see if we can make this simpler/easier. if you have experience with this, please describe the steps you are using (also the source platform), and how you would like to see this make simpler (I'm assuming that would

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-17 Thread Sven Kieske
Hi, I myself have no experience with this so far, but I can quote blaster from the ML: Blaster wrote: I haven’t tried this yet, but if I had to move a VM from ESXi to oVirt this is how I would do it… (actually, this is how I did it with Windows 7 guests…) Shutdown guest on ESXi (or use

Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

2014-01-17 Thread Sander Grendelman
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com wrote: I see a lot of threads about v2v pains (mostly from ESX?) I'm interested to see if we can make this simpler/easier. hear hear! if you have experience with this, please describe the steps you are using (also the source