Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH storage/qemu-server/manager v6] implement ova/ovf import for file based storages

[Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>]

On 11/19/24 09:15, Lukas Wagner wrote:
> On Mon Nov 18, 2024 at 2:53 PM CET, Dominik Csapak wrote:
>>>> nothing special, I tested the feature using the Home Assistant .ova from
>>>> [1]. Downloaded the OVA to my local storage, pressed "import", did not
>>>> change *any* settings apart from ticking "live import".
>>>> The import works, but the VM is not started. Starting the VM manually
>>>> works fine, also the tasks log does not show anything of concern.
>>>> In the browser network requests I saw that 'live-restore' is set to '1'
>>>> in the import POST request.
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/alternative/
>>>
>>>
>>> mhmm can reproduce with that ova image, maybe it has something to do with our
>>> ovf import not detecting the main disk?
>>> (at least here it does not detect any disk)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ok two things here:
>>
>> * this ova is malformed it seems, it has a HostResource of '/disk/vmidsk1' when
>> the spec says it should be of the form 'ovf:/disk/vmdisk1' which is what we look for
>> (we could make that optional though?)
>>
>> * seemingly live-import does not start the vm if there was no disk, but AFAICS
>> this was pre-existing and not something my series introduced (but not sure either)
>>
> 
> Ah, thanks for the investigation. Maybe it'd be worth to check whether
> other hypervisors accept the malformed resource definition and then add
> support to PVE as well if this is the case.


actually thomas fixed that yesterday already:

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-storage.git;a=commitdiff;h=f2a6bd278896f4354f88cf828dc690d186126741


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