Importing Virtual Machine images
We just looked at the importing process of VM templates; now let's explore the VM images. These images are ready to be deployed the minute you have them in your Oracle VM Manager.
You can import both Oracle and VMware Virtual Machines with this utility. While importing Oracle VM Manager it is possible to convert VMware Virtual Machines seamlessly via the V2V process.
We also explore the capability of converting the VMware disk *.vmdk
into a *.img
file. Other formats are also supported, such as vvfat, vpc, bochs, dmg, cloop, vmdk, qcow, cow
, and raw
.
Ensure that the vm.cfg
file has the right parameters; in our case we made sure to point it to the right disk:
disk = ['file:/OVS/running_pool/XP4VMotion/system.img,hdc:cdrom,r']
Importing a Virtual Machine image
Getting the Virtual Machine images can take place in several ways. You could get them from the Server Pool, get them from the external cloud, or convert the VM from Linux VM to a VM with the P2V utility...