Hi,
We are currently working on a tool to better industrialize VM import from VMware into the VMS stack, based on N8N (https://n8n.io). Stay tuned !!!

Hi @nasheayahu,

1/ are you running the latest XO from source ?
2/ did you follow this to create the ZFS volume => https://docs.xcp-ng.org/storage/#zfs ?
3/ did you try with "ext" type instead ? or your requirement is QCOW2 with ZFS ?

The "import QCOW2" is currently not yet implemented, hence the API error (it should have been not permitted actually); it should be merged in the next XO release.

Hi @mdm,

Here is the response from a SME
1-

• XO get the VM metadata through soap api and create the vm /network
• XO use the nbdkit + nbdkit-vddk package , connecting to each disk
• XO connect through NBD to nbdkit
• XO list the allocated blocks
• XO create the disk
• XO read the block and import the data into the disk (though a vhd or qcow2 stream depending on the size)

2- though XO. There is a lot of disk transform occuring here

3- not anymore, it was too brittle, especially on when the disk are locked or not. Also it was not scaling too well
4- see 3- +
vddk transfer is overwhelmly faster that previous access through http, is compatible with VSAN and don't lock the disks.

(+ also see https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-5-110/ section "VMware to Vates (V2V)" where we made key improvements)

@abudef we'll add it in the near-term (June hopefully) as QCOW2 support is a major update in the VMS stack !

@jr-m4 Thank you for this feedback. We'll try to make it better based on this !