Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] v2v: Preserve VM Generation ID (RHBZ#1598350).

Richard W.M. Jones
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 14:15:37 -0000

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Fabien Dupont
wrote:
> Does genid exist in oVirt ? If yes, is it already preserved or should it be
> a new patch ?

This patch does not preserve it for any RHV output mode:

> > We are missing support currently for all OVF-based formats (hence
> > ‘-i ova’, and all oVirt/RHV output modes).  It's unclear where we
> > would store the genid in this format.

However it's a very good question and I defer to Tomáš and Michal,
although I believe they are both on holiday for the rest of the week.

Rich.

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