Bug 1276411

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1223016 +++

We were not able to make the VHD image for MS SCVMM work on cfme-5.4 (CloudForms 3.2) for the following reasons:

The NIC driver in RHEL is not compatible with the HyperV virtual machine specification and will require some work to either replace driver or find a more generally compatible one. 

Creating this BZ to track this functionality targeted for cfme-5.5 and cfme-5.4.z stream.

--- Additional comment from John Prause on 2015-07-20 15:20:14 EDT ---

Some info for later reference:
http://windowsitpro.com/virtual-machine-manager/deploy-linux-scvmm

Some details from the link:

1. Startup a Cloudforms VSphere appliance

2. Since RHEL6.6 has a default kernel version that is older (must be at least 3.4), you must install the latest Hyper-V integration services.

Question: Where do you get the latest Hyper-V integration services?

3. Install the SCVMM 2012 SP1 Linux agent. This is found in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\Virtual Machine Manager\agents\Linux folder on the SCVMM server. The file will be called: scvmmguestagent.1.0.0.544.x64.tar

Question: Where do we get Microsoft System Center 2012? Is there a newer version?

4. Shut down the Linux VM, and then save its VHDX file to the SCVMM library.

5. Create a Linux template, and make sure you set the correct Operating System, which will allow you to configure automatic naming, and then save the template.

6. You can now create new Linux VMs from the template.

--- Additional comment from John Prause on 2015-07-29 14:32:58 EDT ---

This is information from jhardy:

1. The VHD support was a nice to have for CF3.2, so yes a tech preview item. As we get closer to Azure capabilities maturing this item becomes higher on the list of required items. Not confirmed but my guess would be to run CF in Azure will require a VHD format, equally we do have an account in support exception running CF in SCVMM as they only have a SCVMM environment. So we have two drivers requiring us to deliver on this, Azure and SCVMM.

2. The version of SCVMM to base against would be SCVMM 2012 R2.

--- Additional comment from John Prause on 2015-08-03 13:40:32 EDT ---

Currently, brew image-build only supports the following formats:

vmdk, qcow, qcow2, vdi, rhevm-ova, vsphere-ova, docker, raw-xz

--- Additional comment from John Prause on 2015-08-03 13:44:42 EDT ---

More info from: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/ef8c12f7-c45d-442e-9a30-c43cd87df3b3/how-to-convert-vmware-image-to-hyperv-images


Vmdk2Vhd is a simple utility to convert virtual hard drive images from VMWare's VMDK format into the Microsoft's VHD format. This is a sector by sector copy operation from one format to the other and the source file remains unaltered.

--- Additional comment from John Prause on 2015-08-03 16:55:32 EDT ---

Version 1.9.0 of brew is supposed to support vpc (vhd equivalent),..however we have 1.9.1 of brew installed and don't see that supported image build.

I've opened: https://engineering.redhat.com/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=364765
with rel-eng and will need this resolved to move forward.

--- Additional comment from John Prause on 2015-09-11 13:41:35 EDT ---

The brewery machines have been updated with the latest version of brew that have VPC support. We still need to modify or add kickstart files to generate this additional appliance build.

--- Additional comment from John Prause on 2015-09-17 16:07:58 EDT ---

Hurray! I was able to brew a scratch build for a 5.4 VHD appliance.

Next I'll see if we can mount this somewhere and give it a quick test.
If that works, then I'll brew an official 5.4.2 build for QE to test.

--- Additional comment from John Prause on 2015-10-26 14:57:52 EDT ---

Fix and merged in: http://gitlab.cloudforms.lab.eng.rdu2.redhat.com/cloudforms/cfme_productization/merge_requests/90