[pve-devel] [PATCH storage/qemu-server/manager v6] implement ova/ovf import for file based storages

[Gilberto Ferreira]

Ok. Here is the error message:
referenced path 'Ubuntu 24.04 (64bit)-disk001.vmdk' is invalid (500)


Hope this helps.


Thanks



Em qua., 20 de nov. de 2024 às 13:32, Gilberto Ferreira via pve-devel <
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> From: Gilberto Ferreira <gilberto.nunes32 at gmail.com>
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> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:32:05 -0300
> Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH storage/qemu-server/manager v6] implement
> ova/ovf import for file based storages
> Hi there.
> Sorry for the email, but I tested this import option with an Ubuntu ova
> which has space in the vmdk name and I believe that could lead to errors.
> I had downloaded from here:
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> https://razaoinfo.dl.sourceforge.net/project/osboxes/v/vb/55-U-u/OVA-Versions/24.04/Ubuntu-24.04-64bit-VB.ova
> When I tried to import got error 500!
> Unfortunately I didn't get the entire error message or any logs.
> Is it some kind of error or bug?
>
> Nevertheless, I would like to say thanks for this amazing feature.
>
> Cheers
>
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> Em ter., 19 de nov. de 2024 às 05:49, Thomas Lamprecht <
> t.lamprecht at proxmox.com> escreveu:
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> > Am 19.11.24 um 09:15 schrieb Lukas Wagner:
> > > On Mon Nov 18, 2024 at 2:53 PM CET, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> > >>>> nothing special, I tested the feature using the Home Assistant .ova
> > from
> > >>>> [1]. Downloaded the OVA to my local storage, pressed "import", did
> not
> > >>>> change *any* settings apart from ticking "live import".
> > >>>> The import works, but the VM is not started. Starting the VM
> manually
> > >>>> works fine, also the tasks log does not show anything of concern.
> > >>>> In the browser network requests I saw that 'live-restore' is set to
> > '1'
> > >>>> in the import POST request.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> [1] https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/alternative/
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> mhmm can reproduce with that ova image, maybe it has something to do
> > with our
> > >>> ovf import not detecting the main disk?
> > >>> (at least here it does not detect any disk)
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> ok two things here:
> > >>
> > >> * this ova is malformed it seems, it has a HostResource of
> > '/disk/vmidsk1' when
> > >> the spec says it should be of the form 'ovf:/disk/vmdisk1' which is
> > what we look for
> > >> (we could make that optional though?)
> > >>
> > >> * seemingly live-import does not start the vm if there was no disk,
> but
> > AFAICS
> > >> this was pre-existing and not something my series introduced (but not
> > sure either)
> > >>
> > >
> > > Ah, thanks for the investigation. Maybe it'd be worth to check whether
> > > other hypervisors accept the malformed resource definition and then add
> > > support to PVE as well if this is the case.
> >
> >
> > Btw. it should work now already, the GNS3 image that Filip linked to in
> > his reply
> > used the same format, so this seems to be relatively common.
> >
> > I used the GNS3 one yesterday as test case to integrate some detection
> > quirks, I
> > also had to accept whitespace in the OVA disk names (we normalize those
> as
> > standard
> > PVE volume name through import anyway).
> >
> > I then also imported A HAOS OVA image, that works in general, but the
> disk
> > was not
> > added as boot device, and the disk bus was LSI, I needed to change both
> to
> > make the
> > disk available for OVMF. IIRC the OS type was detected "Others" on
> import,
> > I changed
> > that, but seems not all defaults changed with it – maybe one could look
> > into that?
> > HAOS is a common usecase, I alone installed it twice this year, back then
> > I had to
> > use the qcow2 image and manually import that like a cave man though hehe
> >
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> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:32:05 -0300
> Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH storage/qemu-server/manager v6] implement
> ova/ovf import for file based storages
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