libvirt users - Feb 2015 - Re: A problem with converting an OVA appliance

On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 10:33 -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> 0.600.1 is very old, and virt-convert has changed a lot since then. I'd
> recommend trying the latest version from virt-manager-1.1.0, and if you
still
> hit issues, file an upstream bug:
I did just that, i.e. I used virt-convert 0.600.4 from
virt-manager-1.1.0 (while I left the installed libvirt packages at
1.2.9) and the same issue happens again.

I'm puzzled. Does this mean no one uses virt-convert to convert from OVA
to virt-image?

I know it's not the problem in the virtual appliance because I can
extract its disk image and convert it to qcow2 with:

qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 appliance.vmdk appliance.qcow2

and then create a virtual machine by providing the converted disk and
things work normally. But I'd like to avoid this workaround if possible.


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Regards,
Marko
http://dimjasevic.net/marko

On 02/24/2015 11:57 PM, Marko Dimjašević wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 10:33 -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> 
>> 0.600.1 is very old, and virt-convert has changed a lot since then.
I'd
>> recommend trying the latest version from virt-manager-1.1.0, and if you
still
>> hit issues, file an upstream bug:
> 
> I did just that, i.e. I used virt-convert 0.600.4 from
> virt-manager-1.1.0 (while I left the installed libvirt packages at
> 1.2.9) and the same issue happens again.
> 
> I'm puzzled. Does this mean no one uses virt-convert to convert from
OVA
> to virt-image?
> 
New virt-convert does not convert to virt-image, since virt-image has been
removed. It converts straight to libvirt XML

If you are still hitting an issue, please file a bug report with the full
virt-convert command line, output of the failing command with --debug, and the
ovf config file (or an example where you downloaded the appliance)

- Cole
> I know it's not the problem in the virtual appliance because I can
> extract its disk image and convert it to qcow2 with:
> 
> qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 appliance.vmdk appliance.qcow2
> 
> and then create a virtual machine by providing the converted disk and
> things work normally. But I'd like to avoid this workaround if
possible.
> 
>

Hi all,

On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 08:54 -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> New virt-convert does not convert to virt-image, since virt-image has been
> removed. It converts straight to libvirt XML
Thx Cole for this! Does that version of virt-convert need a minimum
libvirt version that is above 1.2.9?


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Regards,
Marko
http://dimjasevic.net/marko