Unable to boot VM using image exported from Virtual Center

[Sreeram Yerrapragada]

Steps to reproduce:
1. From Virtual Center, export a working VM as an OVA file (test.ova)
2. Upload OVA file to glance using:
glance image-create --name=testova --disk-format=vmdk --container-format=ovf --is-public=True --property vmware_adaptertype="ide" --property vmware_disktype="preallocated" < testimages/test.ova

actual result:
The boot appears to succeed and the VM appears running, but the console shows "Operating system not found".
Also:
- I have tried with --property vmware_disktype="sparse" and the result is the same
- Trying with --container-format="ova" gives:
400 Bad Request
Invalid container format 'ova' for image.
(HTTP 400)

Expected:
Able to boot into OS and see the login screen

[Vui Lam (vui)]

That the boot actually appears to 'succeed' was a source of confusion on more than one occasion.

There are actually two issues:

1. The ova file uploaded to glance it actually a tar bundle containing within it the actual disk image that we need to boot the instance with. So the OVA image downloaded from glance will require further processing to extract the needed file.
2. The extracted VMDK is in the streamOptimized format, which until recently, cannot be properly handled by the VMware drivers.
With the introduction of the oslo.vmware (https://github.com/openstack/oslo.vmware) library, it is now possible to use said format.

I will provide a fix to do the necessary processing in 1. as well as leverage the functionality provided by oslo.vmware

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

I'm inclined to drop this from the rc1 milestone until there is actually a patch up for it, since we're tracking the rc1 bug list for reviews so this shouldn't probably be on that list.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/82715

[Jay Pipes (jaypipes)]

Vui, I've asked Mikal to release his -2 on the associated patch, now that the blueprint is approved. Could you please restore and rebase your patch? Thanks much!

-jay

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

No long in progress, as we're stalled for freeze

[Radoslav Gerganov (rgerganov)]

Support for OVA images has been added in the Kilo release:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/vmware-driver-ova-support