[pve-devel] [PATCH storage/qemu-server/pve-manager] implement ova/ovf import for directory type storages

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On April 16, 2024 3:18 pm, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> This series enables importing ova/ovf from directory based storages,
> inclusive upload/download via the webui (ova only).
> 
> It also improves the ovf importer by parsing the ostype, nics, bootorder
> (and firmware from vmware exported files).
> 
> I currently opted to move the OVF.pm to pve-storage, since there is no
> real other place where we could put it. Building a seperate package
> from qemu-servers git repo would also not be ideal, since we still
> have a cyclic dev dependency then
> (If someone has a better idea how to handle that, please do tell, and
> i can do that in a v2)
> 
> There are surely some wrinkles left i did not think of, but all in all,
> it should be pretty usable. E.g. i downloaded some ovas, uploaded them
> on my cephfs in my virtual cluster, and successfully imported that with
> live-import.
> 
> The biggest caveat when importing from ovas is that we have to
> temporarily extract the disk images. I opted for doing that into the
> import storage, but if we have a better idea where to put that, i can
> implement it in a v2 (or as a follow up). For example, we could add a
> new 'tmpdir' parameter to the create call and use that for extractig.

something is wrong with the permissions, since the import images are not
added to check_volume_access, I can now upload an OVA, but not see it
afterwards ;)

I guess if a user has upload rights for improt images
(Datastore.AllocateTemplate), they should also be able to see and use
(and remove) import images?