Virt-manager: IDE disks

scottalanmiller

Is there a reason that you want it?

scottalanmiller

My KVM system still offers IDE, but we never select them.

FATeknollogee

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

What version are you on?

v2.1.0

FATeknollogee

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

Is there a reason that you want it?

I'm trying to import/convert an ova. The disks in the ova are IDE.

scottalanmiller

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

Is there a reason that you want it?

I'm trying to import/convert an ova. The disks on the ova are IDE.

Backup and restore. You don't want IDE after the conversion anyway.

FATeknollogee

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

Is there a reason that you want it?

I'm trying to import/convert an ova. The disks on the ova are IDE.

Backup and restore. You don't want IDE after the conversion anyway.

Backup? I only have the ova file. It's an appliance I downloaded.

scottalanmiller

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

Is there a reason that you want it?

I'm trying to import/convert an ova. The disks on the ova are IDE.

Backup and restore. You don't want IDE after the conversion anyway.

Backup? I only have the ova file. It's an appliance I downloaded.

Oh, you've not fired it up on another system yet? Ugh.

FATeknollogee

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

Is there a reason that you want it?

I'm trying to import/convert an ova. The disks on the ova are IDE.

Backup and restore. You don't want IDE after the conversion anyway.

Backup? I only have the ova file. It's an appliance I downloaded.

Oh, you've not fired it up on another system yet? Ugh.

It's an ova that was exported from ESXi.

scottalanmiller

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

Is there a reason that you want it?

I'm trying to import/convert an ova. The disks on the ova are IDE.

Backup and restore. You don't want IDE after the conversion anyway.

Backup? I only have the ova file. It's an appliance I downloaded.

Oh, you've not fired it up on another system yet? Ugh.

It's an ova that was exported from ESXi.

Right, but you don't have access to the ESXi system to take a backup.

FATeknollogee

I tried using virt-v2v to convert, for some odd reason, virt-v2v thinks the disks are virtio!!

scottalanmiller

I'm researching but not finding anything about virt-manager having made a change to remove IDE options. Their website has been dead for two years and there is no obvious change log in GitHub.

scottalanmiller

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

I tried using virt-v2v to convert, for some odd reason, virt-v2v thinks the disks are virtio!!

VirtIO is what you would want. I assume that the V2V process is failing, though?

FATeknollogee

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

I tried using virt-v2v to convert, for some odd reason, virt-v2v thinks the disks are virtio!!

VirtIO is what you would want. I assume that the V2V process is failing, though?

Funny enough, v2v does not fail!

FATeknollogee

virt-v2v: This guest has virtio drivers installed.

scottalanmiller

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

I tried using virt-v2v to convert, for some odd reason, virt-v2v thinks the disks are virtio!!

VirtIO is what you would want. I assume that the V2V process is failing, though?

Funny enough, v2v does not fail!

So you get a working VM? What's the issue then?

FATeknollogee

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

I tried using virt-v2v to convert, for some odd reason, virt-v2v thinks the disks are virtio!!

VirtIO is what you would want. I assume that the V2V process is failing, though?

Funny enough, v2v does not fail!

So you get a working VM? What's the issue then?

No working vm, vm will not boot, says it can't find the disks

FATeknollogee

FATeknollogee

xml file shows the disks as IDE.

scottalanmiller

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@FATeknollogee said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

I tried using virt-v2v to convert, for some odd reason, virt-v2v thinks the disks are virtio!!

VirtIO is what you would want. I assume that the V2V process is failing, though?

Funny enough, v2v does not fail!

So you get a working VM? What's the issue then?

No working vm, vm will not boot, says it can't find the disks

Oh, so the V2V process fails then. That's what I meant. It didn't result in a working system.

scottalanmiller

@FATeknollogee in theory you can remap the drives manually