How do I convert a VMware VM to a format compatible with UIS?
Upload the VMware VM file to a host managed in UIS Manager. In this example, the VM file name is 1.ova. For example, upload the VM file to directory /vms/defaultShareFileSystem0 on host 10.10.10.151.
If the VM file is an OVA package file, you must decompress the package file before you can convert the VM. As a best practice, create a temporary directory and decompress the OVA file in that directory.
For example, create subdirectory tmp in the /vms/defaultShareFileSystem directory, move the VM package file (1.ova) to the subdirectory, and execute the tar command to decompress the file.
root@cvknode1:/vms/defaultShareFileSystem0# mkdir tmp
root@cvknode1:/vms/defaultShareFileSystem0# ls
root@cvknode1:/vms/defaultShareFileSystem0#
mv 1.ova tmp
root@cvknode1:/vms/defaultShareFileSystem0# cd tmp
root@cvknode1:/vms/defaultShareFileSystem0/tmp# tar –xf 1.ova
Figure-1 VM files extracted from the OVA package file
Locate the .vmdk file in the directory, and then execute the qemu-img convert command to convert the .vmdk file to the qcow2 format.
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 filename out_filename
The filename argument represents the file name of the source VM image, and the out_filename argument represents the file name of the converted VM image.
Figure-2 Converting the VM image format
Move the qcow2 image to a storage pool for VM creation.
This example moves the converted image (ykt-1) to storage pool /vms/defaultShareFileSystem0.
root@cvknode1:/vms/defaultShareFileSystem0/tmp# mv ykt-1 /vms/defaultShareFileSystem0
root@cvknode1:/vms/defaultShareFileSystem0/tmp# cd ..
root@cvknode1:/vms/defaultShareFileSystem0#ls
Create a VM in UIS Manager. Select the converted image file and set the disk bus type to IDE.
In this example, select image ykt-1 from the defaultShareFileSystem0 storage pool.
Start the VM and verify that the VM can operate correctly.