Libguestfs - May 2022 - [PATCH v2] docs: Add extra permission needed for non-admin download with VMware 7

From: Ming Xie <mxie at redhat.com>

Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1817050
---
 docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod b/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
index ab2d28e41f..bccf0f7490 100644
--- a/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
+++ b/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
@@ -559,8 +559,9 @@ write to libvirt or any other supported target.
 
 Instead of using the vCenter Administrator role, you can create a
 custom non-administrator role to perform the conversion.  You will
-however need to give it a minimum set of permissions as follows
-(using VMware vCenter 6.5):
+however need enable the following permissions (or as many as are
+available, older versions of VMware were missing some of these
+settings):
 
 =over 4
 
@@ -585,6 +586,7 @@ Enable (check) the following objects:
    Provisioning:
      - Allow disk access
      - Allow read-only disk access
+     - Allow virtual machine download
  
  Cryptographic operations:
   - Decrypt
-- 
2.35.1

On 05/19/22 12:52, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> From: Ming Xie <mxie at redhat.com>
> 
> Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1817050
> ---
>  docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
b/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
> index ab2d28e41f..bccf0f7490 100644
> --- a/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
> +++ b/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
> @@ -559,8 +559,9 @@ write to libvirt or any other supported target.
>  
>  Instead of using the vCenter Administrator role, you can create a
>  custom non-administrator role to perform the conversion.  You will
> -however need to give it a minimum set of permissions as follows
> -(using VMware vCenter 6.5):
> +however need enable the following permissions (or as many as are
> +available, older versions of VMware were missing some of these
> +settings):
>  
>  =over 4
>  
> @@ -585,6 +586,7 @@ Enable (check) the following objects:
>     Provisioning:
>       - Allow disk access
>       - Allow read-only disk access
> +     - Allow virtual machine download
>   
>   Cryptographic operations:
>    - Decrypt
> 
Great, thanks!

Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>