Bug 1389044 - No documentation of requirements for new Import feature for KVM guests
Summary: No documentation of requirements for new Import feature for KVM guests
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1386828
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Documentation
Version: 4.0.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: rhev-docs@redhat.com
QA Contact: rhev-docs@redhat.com
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-26 17:32 UTC by Allie DeVolder
Modified: 2021-08-30 11:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-10-27 00:01:46 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHV-43186 0 None None None 2021-08-30 11:54:38 UTC
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Description Allie DeVolder 2016-10-26 17:32:03 UTC
Description of problem:


We don't have any information about the requirements for the new feature allowing importing of KVM VMs from the VMs tab in RHV. From customer attempts, we've learned the following requirements exist:

- Passwordless SSH must be configured between the vdsm user on the RHV hypervisor and the root user on the KVM server. 

        # su -s /bin/bash vdsm
        # ssh-keygen
        # ssh-copy-id root@<KVM host>
        # virsh -c 'qemu+ssh://root@<KVMHOST>/system' list --all

- VM NICs must have MAC addresses within the range managed by the RHEV environment
- Running VMs are ignored. VM must not be running to be imported.
- KVM guest storage must be available on the RHV Hypervisor performing the import if it's not a local image file.

There seem to be other ways to do this import from this dialogue, but we haven't been able to determine what the requirements are and what is and is not supported.

Comment 1 John Call 2016-10-26 19:15:31 UTC
It seems that the RFE was addressed in 1302427 -- I'm not sure if this should be represented as a Depends / Blocks bug here...

Comment 2 Tahlia Richardson 2016-10-27 00:01:46 UTC
Hi Allan, 
Thanks for filing this bug. 
Documentation for the KVM import feature is being tracked in BZ#1386828. Currently there is a draft ready, just being finalised. 

Closing this bug as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1386828 ***


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