Libguestfs - Nov 2014 - Re: virt-v2v: Died at /usr/bin/virt-p2v-server line 411

OK the Windows "argument list too long" thing should be fixed
by hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7 which is in the usual place.

Rich.

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Le 20/11/2014 23:11, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit :
>
> OK the Windows "argument list too long" thing should be fixed
> by hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7 which is in the usual place.
>
> Rich.
>
It's a real pleasure to start a working day and see that a yum upgrade 
displays some fresh packages just related to our issues :)

Thank you Richard.

But as usual, I won't be able to test them on the real server before 
tonight (production server).
For your information, when this conversion will run smoothly, I will 
have lots of other servers to convert, so your work will get intensively 
tested and very appreciated.

-- 
Nicolas Ecarnot

Le 21/11/2014 08:24, Nicolas Ecarnot a écrit :
> Le 20/11/2014 23:11, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit :
>>
>> OK the Windows "argument list too long" thing should be fixed
>> by hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7 which is in the usual place.
>>
>> Rich.
>>
>
> It's a real pleasure to start a working day and see that a yum upgrade
> displays some fresh packages just related to our issues :)
>
> Thank you Richard.
>
> But as usual, I won't be able to test them on the real server before
> tonight (production server).
> For your information, when this conversion will run smoothly, I will
> have lots of other servers to convert, so your work will get intensively
> tested and very appreciated.
>
Richard, Matthew et al,

I'm extremely glad to announce that last night, _we_ (you and I) were 
finally able to complete a conversion of this tricky windows 2003 server.

When completed, the import into oVirt went fine, but booting lead to a 
BSOD, which I corrected by merging mergeide.reg into the source machine 
and starting the whole process again. Then I fine tuned it by installing 
the dedicated virt drivers (virtio, net, scsi) and it eventually worked.

I guess the success key was that very last release of the packages 
coming from the libguestfs-RHEL-7.1-preview.repo repo :

[root@serv-p2v-adm1 etc]# tail -8 /var/log/yum.log
Nov 21 08:19:52 Updated: hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:53 Updated: perl-hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:53 Updated: 1:libguestfs-1.28.1-1.13.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:54 Updated: 1:libguestfs-tools-c-1.28.1-1.13.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:54 Updated: 1:perl-Sys-Guestfs-1.28.1-1.13.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:54 Updated: 1:libguestfs-tools-1.28.1-1.13.el7.noarch
Nov 21 08:19:54 Updated: 1:libguestfs-devel-1.28.1-1.13.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:55 Updated: 1:virt-v2v-1.28.1-1.13.el7.x86_64

For me, it has been more than a month of struggle, doc reading, testing, 
and way too many failures; but thanks to the libguestfs team, I succeeded.
So I'd like to express my sincere thanks to Richard and Matthew for your 
support and professionalism.

As I explained it this long thread, I will have many more machines to 
convert, so they may be parts I may wish to see unsharpened (iptables 
concerns, sshd_config, livecd via pxeboot), but I know now that the code 
is correct and the pieces are fitting.

Once again, thank you gentlemen.

-- 
Nicolas Ecarnot