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[Jay Kumbhani <jkumbhani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Team,

Thank you for support.

Finally i am able to migrate running VM from VMware player to openstack private cloud.

I used thick ("-flat.vmdk") for importing to openstack.

Let me know if anyone looking for steps. I am happy to help.

Thanks
Jay
On May 16, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Anne Gentle <anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Shawn Hartsock <hartsocks@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> Hi Shawn, I'm happy to walk you through the process if you get stuck, basically git clone the openstack-manuals directory and edit https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/blob/master/doc/src/docbkx/common/vmware.xml. Dan Wendlandt had a patch go in last week to improve those docs so you might want to coordinate efforts.
> 
> See http://wiki.openstack.org/Documentation/HowTo for details.
> Thanks,
> Anne
>  
> 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
> 
> 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
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> 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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