<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>I think it would be a great if you could post this.</div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span># Shawn Hartsock<span name="x"></span><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Jay Kumbhani" <jkumbhani@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Anne Gentle" <anne@openstack.org><br><b>Cc: </b>"Shawn Hartsock" <hartsocks@vmware.com>, "Openstack" <openstack-translation@lists.launchpad.net>, "Openstack" <openstack@lists.launchpad.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, May 17, 2013 9:05:20 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Openstack] Vmware running images<br><div><br></div>Team,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for support.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally i am able to migrate running VM from VMware player to openstack private cloud.</div><div><br></div><div>I used <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; " data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px;">thick ("-flat.vmdk") for importing to openstack.</span></div><div><span face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></span></div><div><span face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;">Let me know if anyone looking for steps. I am happy to help.</span></span></div><div><span face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></span></div><div><span face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;">Thanks</span></span></div><div><span face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 16px;">Jay<br></span></span><div><div>On May 16, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Anne Gentle <<a href="mailto:anne@openstack.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:anne@openstack.org">anne@openstack.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Shawn Hartsock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hartsocks@vmware.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:hartsocks@vmware.com">hartsocks@vmware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;"><div>So, a couple of points:</div><div><ul><li>when OpenStack manages a VM it does so, cradle to grave</li><ul><li>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.</li><li>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)</li></ul><li>use thick ("-flat.vmdk") provisioned VMDK with glance at the moment (we notice problems using 'thin' in some setups)</li><li>official docs <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html">http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html</a></li><ul><li>These docs need updating, I'd do it but I don't know how</li></ul></ul></div></div></blockquote><div style="" data-mce-style="">Hi Shawn, I'm happy to walk you through the process if you get stuck, basically git clone the openstack-manuals directory and edit <a href="https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/blob/master/doc/src/docbkx/common/vmware.xml" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/blob/master/doc/src/docbkx/common/vmware.xml">https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/blob/master/doc/src/docbkx/common/vmware.xml</a>. Dan Wendlandt had a patch go in last week to improve those docs so you might want to coordinate efforts.</div><div style="" data-mce-style=""><br></div><div style="" data-mce-style="">See <a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Documentation/HowTo" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Documentation/HowTo">http://wiki.openstack.org/Documentation/HowTo</a> for details.</div><div style="" data-mce-style="">Thanks,</div><div style="" data-mce-style="">Anne</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;"><div><ul><ul><li>BTW: we fixed the bit where you do stuff with tomcat and the SDK</li></ul></ul></div><div>Hope that helps. Please correct me if I've gotten something wrong.</div><div><br></div><div><span></span># Shawn Hartsock<span></span><br></div><div><br></div><hr><blockquote style="padding-left:5px;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;margin-left:5px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(16,16,255)" data-mce-style="padding-left: 5px; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; margin-left: 5px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #1010ff;"><b>From: </b>"Marcos Antônio Cavenaghi" <<a href="mailto:marcos@cavenaghi.ca" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:marcos@cavenaghi.ca">marcos@cavenaghi.ca</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Jay Kumbhani" <<a href="mailto:jkumbhani@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:jkumbhani@gmail.com">jkumbhani@gmail.com</a>><br> <b>Cc: </b>"Openstack" <<a href="mailto:openstack-translation@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:openstack-translation@lists.launchpad.net">openstack-translation@lists.launchpad.net</a>>, "Openstack" <<a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a>><br> <b>Sent: </b>Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:39:33 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Openstack] Vmware running images<div><div class="h5"><br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,51,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif" data-mce-style="color: #003300; font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif;">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.</span></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,51,0)" data-mce-style="font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif; font-size: small; color: #003300;"><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,51,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif" data-mce-style="color: #003300; font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif;">glance add name="My VMware Image" is_public=true container_format=bare disk_format=vmdk < My_VMware_Image.vmdk</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,51,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif" data-mce-style="color: #003300; font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,51,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif" data-mce-style="color: #003300; font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif;">If you have more than one vmdk file (the image is split), use qemu-img to convert them to a single file.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,51,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif" data-mce-style="color: #003300; font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,51,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif" data-mce-style="color: #003300; font-family: 'comic sans ms',sans-serif;">Marcos</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Jay Kumbhani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkumbhani@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:jkumbhani@gmail.com">jkumbhani@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">Guys<br> <br> I am trying to import running vmware virtual machines into openstack private cloud.<br> <br> I did some steps but couldn't succeed. 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