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[Shawn Hartsock <hartsocks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So, a couple of points: 

    * when OpenStack manages a VM it does so, cradle to grave 

        * it sounds like you want to manage existing vSphere inventory and that's not a supported use case remember: cradle-to-grave in one stack or the other. 
        * at the moment sharing part of your vSphere resources (say a resource pool) with OpenStack is possible but not documented someone needs to write that doc (and perhaps submit code) 
    * 
use thick ("-flat.vmdk") provisioned VMDK with glance at the moment (we notice problems using 'thin' in some setups)     * official docs http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html 

        * These docs need updating, I'd do it but I don't know how 
        * BTW: we fixed the bit where you do stuff with tomcat and the SDK 
Hope that helps. Please correct me if I've gotten something wrong. 

# Shawn Hartsock 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Marcos Antônio Cavenaghi" <marcos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Jay Kumbhani" <jkumbhani@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Openstack" <openstack-translation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Openstack"
> <openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:39:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Vmware running images

> You have to pick up the <image>.vmdk file and add it using glance. The syntax
> here depends on the version (essex, folsom, ...) you are using.

> glance add name="My VMware Image" is_public=true container_format=bare
> disk_format=vmdk < My_VMware_Image.vmdk

> If you have more than one vmdk file (the image is split), use qemu-img to
> convert them to a single file.

> Marcos

> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Jay Kumbhani < jkumbhani@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:

> > Guys
> 

> > I am trying to import running vmware virtual machines into openstack
> > private
> > cloud.
> 

> > I did some steps but couldn't succeed. Please send me steps or links to
> > follow.
> 

> > Thanks
> 
> > Jay
> 

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