Re: Backup KVM Guest VM in OVA or VMDK format

On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 12:28 AM Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 9:39 PM Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM in kvmguestosimage.ova or >> kvmguestosimage.vmdk format as I am trying to restore it in AWS by >> referring to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/ article as per the >> below supported file format. >> >> [1] Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) >> [2] Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) >> [3] Virtual Hard Disk (VHD/VHDX) >> [4] raw >> >> Also any method to take full and incremental backup of KVM Guest VM. >> >> Any help will be highly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you. >> Thanks in Advance. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Kaushal >> >> >> > Hi, > > Checking in again if someone can pitch in for my earlier post to this > mailing list. Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards, > > Kaushal > Hi, I followed the below steps by referring to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmimport-image-imp... . # qemu-img -h | grep Supported Supported formats: blkdebug blklogwrites blkverify compress copy-before-write copy-on-read file ftp ftps gluster host_cdrom host_device http https iscsi iser luks nbd null-aio null-co nvme preallocate qcow2 quorum raw rbd ssh throttle vhdx vmdk vpc # qemu-img --version qemu-img version 6.2.0 (qemu-kvm-6.2.0-12.module_el8.7.0+1140+ff0772f9) Copyright (c) 2003-2021 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers # *Step No. 1* #qemu-img convert -O vmdk openapibox.img openapibox.vmdk -p *Step No. 2* #aws ec2 import-image --disk-containers Format=vmdk,UserBucket="{S3Bucket=daclabservers,S3Key=openapidbox.vmdk}" { "ImportTaskId": "import-ami-0232f452194f6efe0", "Progress": "1", "SnapshotDetails": [ { "DiskImageSize": 0.0, "Format": "VMDK", "UserBucket": { "S3Bucket": "daclabservers", "S3Key": "openapibox.vmdk" } } ], "Status": "active", "StatusMessage": "pending" } *Step No. 3* #aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks --import-task-ids import-ami-0232f452194f6efe0 { "ImportImageTasks": [ { "ImportTaskId": "import-ami-0232f452194f6efe0", "SnapshotDetails": [ { "DiskImageSize": 0.0, "Status": "completed" } ], "Status": "deleted", "StatusMessage": "ClientError: Disk validation failed [Unsupported VMDK File Format]", "Tags": [] } ] } Please guide me. Am I missing anything? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Kaushal