[PVE-User] Import OVA, exported from RHV

[Timo Veith]

Helo everyone,

for the record, I ignored that „error“ and went on. 

I was able to import the image file into the storage area with 

sm0201:~/ova# qm importdisk 101 cbd17719-b318-4551-b0aa-54a122c59671 cephpool01
importing disk 'cbd17719-b318-4551-b0aa-54a122c59671' to VM 101 ...
transferred 0.0 B of 50.0 GiB (0.00%)
transferred 537.6 MiB of 50.0 GiB (1.05%)
transferred 1.1 GiB of 50.0 GiB (2.11%)
...
transferred 49.3 GiB of 50.0 GiB (98.67%)
transferred 49.9 GiB of 50.0 GiB (99.73%)
transferred 50.0 GiB of 50.0 GiB (100.00%)
transferred 50.0 GiB of 50.0 GiB (100.00%)
Successfully imported disk as 'unused0:cephpool01:vm-101-disk-0'
sm0201:~/ova#

I had to manually asign the disk within the vm settings. The wiki article describes that, but I didn’t read that up until now. I was impatient in the first place and tried to start.

So, then I got a „Boot from ...“ message in the console. But it sat there and was stuck. 

Using GRML I checked it the data was there, and it was. 

So I checked the settings of the vm again. I had to enable the boot order and switch from SeaBIOS to UEFI. The vm was installed with UEFI. That brought me a little further. I saw the grub screen and then the kernel booting. But it crashed with „Fatal glibc error: CPU does not support x86-64-v2“. Ok, one google search later I changed the emulated CPU from kvm64 to x86-64-v2. With that the vm booted. 

After I logged in, I noticed that there is no network interface. I added one and I had to edit the NetworkManager profile in order to reflect the change of the device name from enp1s0 to ens18. 

I thought there would be more information about the vm config in the ova file. Like bios/uefi, cpu type and network interface etc. It’s suprising to me that I had to configure that manually after importing the ova file.

And I am still curious about the "invalid or missing controller: , skipping“ thing. 

Cheers,
Timo



> Am 23.08.2023 um 14:21 schrieb Timo Veith <timo.veith at uni-tuebingen.de>:
> 
> Dear Proxmox Users,
> 
> I am trying to import a vm which was exported from a RHV environment. There is a wiki article which describes the process here https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE#RHEV
> 
> However, when I do that, I get the following error message:
> 
> sm0201:~/ova# qm importovf 101 vm.ovf cephpool01
> invalid or missing controller: , skipping
> 
> Then I thought I could just try it with the local-lvm and issued:
> 
> sm0201:~/ova# qm importovf 101 vm.ovf local-lvm
> invalid or missing controller: , skipping
> Reserving empty config for OVF import to VM 101 failed: VM 101 already exists on node ‚sm0201'
> 
> Switching over to the WebUI I saw that I now have two new VMs. Can somebody tell my what that message „invalid or missing controller ...“ means? 
> 
> Thanks and greetings
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