Virt-manager: IDE disks
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 Am I dreaming or IDE disks are not supported any more? 
 I could have sworn IDE disks used to be in Virt-manager, now I can't find them!!
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 What version are you on? 
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 Is there a reason that you want it? 
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 My KVM system still offers IDE, but we never select them. 
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 @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. 
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 @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. 
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 @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. 
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 @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. 
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 @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. 
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 @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. 
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 I tried using virt-v2v to convert, for some odd reason, virt-v2v thinks the disks are virtio!! 
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 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. 
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 @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? 
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 @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! 
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 virt-v2v: This guest has virtio drivers installed.
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 @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? 
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 @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 
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 xml file shows the disks as IDE. 

