A.118 importVirtualDisk

Imports and adds a virtual disk file to a storage repository.

importVirtualDisk Repository instance url=value [ proxy=value ]

Where instance is:

{ id=value | name=value }

This command imports and adds a virtual disk file to a storage repository.

The following table shows the available options for this command.

Option	Description
`Repository` `instance`	The storage repository in which to import the virtual disk file.
`url=value`	The URL of the virtual disk file. Note that if you quote this argument, the forward slashes in the URL should be escaped. This is illustrated in the example.
`proxy=value`	The IP address or hostname of a proxy server to use when importing the virtual disk file.
{ `id=value` \| `name=value` }	The instance of the object using either the `id` or `name` option, for example `name=MyRepository`.

Example A.149 Importing a virtual disk file to a storage repository

OVM> importVirtualDisk Repository name=MyRepository url="http:////example.com//myvdisk.img"