Libguestfs - Dec 2017 - virt-p2v not recognising Hard Disks of Server

Hello,

I am trying to convert a physical server (10 year old hardware with PCI 
LSI Loging / Symbios LSI MegaRAID controller and SCSI drives, RAID 5 
Configuration) into a Virtual Machine in oVirt (oVirt Version 4.1.8). 
Host to be converted has Fedora 5 OS.

I have downloaded the virt-p2v.iso (Cent OS 7.3). I have prepared the 
conversion server, set it up as a VM in oVirt environment. I am able to 
boot the physical server with virt-p2v.iso. I am able to connect to 
conversion server. But none of the Hard Disks are listed to select for 
conversion.

I opine, probably it is something to do with SCSI / RAID Card drivers.

Is there a way I can get these drivers into virt-p2v.iso? Or do we get 
an old virt-p2v.iso that can recognise the hard disks of this 10 year 
old server? Any suggestions to get this task to completion?

Thanks in advance.

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Anantha Raghava



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On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 11:42:20AM +0530, Anantha Raghava
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to convert a physical server (10 year old hardware with
> PCI LSI Loging / Symbios LSI MegaRAID controller and SCSI drives,
> RAID 5 Configuration) into a Virtual Machine in oVirt (oVirt Version
> 4.1.8). Host to be converted has Fedora 5 OS.
> 
> I have downloaded the virt-p2v.iso (Cent OS 7.3). I have prepared
> the conversion server, set it up as a VM in oVirt environment. I am
> able to boot the physical server with virt-p2v.iso. I am able to
> connect to conversion server. But none of the Hard Disks are listed
> to select for conversion.
> 
> I opine, probably it is something to do with SCSI / RAID Card drivers.
> 
> Is there a way I can get these drivers into virt-p2v.iso? Or do we
> get an old virt-p2v.iso that can recognise the hard disks of this 10
> year old server? Any suggestions to get this task to completion?
Yes, we had the same problem converting a similar machine:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414505

To cut a long story short I made live CDs based on RHEL 5 and
RHEL 6, and hopefully one of those should recognize the disks
of the server:

  http://oirase.annexia.org/virt-p2v/RHEL-7.3/

These will interoperate with the normal virt-v2v on the conversion
server, so you don't need to change the virt-v2v side.

Rich.

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virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines.  Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v