Importing OVA - “Device Already Exists”

[olivierlambert]

@planedrop are you importing this OVA from VMware out of curiosity?

[planedrop]

@olivierlambert Yes, that is correct, it's an exported OVA from VMWare using their CLI based OVA tool (since you can't do it in the GUI anymore). We are working with a vendor to validate their platform on XCP-ng so we can hopefully ditch VMWare and put everything on XCP-ng which is where the rest of our VMs reside.

[olivierlambert]

Would you like to participate to a very early beta test of our new capability to import the VM from VMware directly from VMware API to XCP-ng? (using Xen Orchestra)

[planedrop]

@olivierlambert I would be interested, however this is a production environment, so what are the risks of that? Does it require a beta version of XOA to be installed?

Thanks for the help by the way, we aren't in some major rush so I don't mind tinkering a bit, just can't have anything cause stability issues.

[olivierlambert]

Please open a ticket so we can see in more depth what would be the best options

[planedrop]

@olivierlambert Will do! I will try to do that today, might be next week though, busy week so far at work lol.

Thanks!

[olivierlambert]

No worries, next week is fine Busy here too

[planedrop]

@olivierlambert Just so you are aware, I just sent in a ticket for it a few minutes ago.

Thanks again for the help!

[trent234]

FYI this same error occurs when I try to assign 9 virtual network interfaces for a new VM as well. So its not just a limit on drives.

[planedrop]

@trent234 Interesting, good to know. I do know that XCP-ng only officially supports 7 network interfaces, so not really surprised by that. It supports more VHDs though so feel like I shouldn't be seeing this error.