similar to: [PATCH] v2v: Increase the timeout of VMware curl connections (RHBZ#1146007).

See earlier thread on libvir-list: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-September/thread.html#00201 Libvirt >= 1.2.20 supplies the correct dcPath parameter. If it is available in the libvirt XML, use it, otherwise fall back to the old method of trying to guess it from the vpx:// path. Patches 1, 2 and 4 are just refactoring around this change. Rich.

The first commit removes the --dcpath parameter, which just makes the following stuff simpler. Since libvirt has supported getting datacenterpath from VMware since Oct 2015, it's time to drop this hairy parameter. The rest is quite a complicated series of refactorings, followed by a very simple change to add handling of snapshots taken from old virt-v2v. Rich.

Calculate dcPath correctly for vCenter conversions. Rich.

These patches add the --password-file parameter, allowing you to pass a single password via a file. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158526 Rich.

It turns out that RHEL 5 Xen conversions don't work if the source disk is located on a block device. See patch 1/4 for the gory details. This patch series proposes a new tool called virt-v2v-copy-to-local which essentially is a way to make new virt-v2v work like the old virt-v2v, ie. copy first, convert after. Of course this is very slow and would only be used as a last resort, but I

The curl binary is used in the VCenter module, so require it up-front. This let us remove the need to point the user to check whether curl is installed in an error message. --- v2v/input_libvirt_vcenter_https.ml | 13 ++++++++++++- v2v/vCenter.ml | 2 +- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/v2v/input_libvirt_vcenter_https.ml

This series (except the last one) changes virt-v2v to use nbdkit for several input modes: -i vmx -it vddk: No change in functionality, as this already uses nbdkit-vddk-plugin, but the code is refactored for the other modes to use. -i libvirtxml: Use nbdkit-curl-plugin instead of qemu curl. vCenter: Use nbdkit-curl-plugin instead of qemu curl. xen: Use nbdkit-ssh-plugin instead of qemu

Originally posted here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-April/thread.html#00054 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-April/msg00076.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-April/msg00126.html This is a rebase on top of current master branch with no other changes. The first patch in the old series was pushed a while back, and the last "TEMPORARY"

Add a common debug function for printing debugging messages. It only emits the debug message when the verbose (-v) flag is used on the command line. It sends the output to stderr, which is flushed immediately after the message is printed (to help with debugging unexpected crashes). There are good arguments for sending the debug to either stdout or stderr, and almost all existing debug messages

v2 was posted here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-July/msg00115.html This also has links to earlier versions. v3: - The 01/11 patch in v2 included a bunch of unnecessary plus one necessary change to how input_password is passed around. I moved the necessary change into the final patch (implementing SSH password authentication) and dropped the rest. - The 01/11

v3 posted here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-July/msg00200.html v4: - The first patch in the v3 series was just a trivial doc whitespace fix so I pushed it. - There's a new patch using the nbdkit-retry-filter. This is not actually upstream in nbdkit but we know enough about how it will work. - Rebased against master and reran the tests. Rich.

With modern libvirt, when fetching the XML of a VMware guest libvirt passes us the datacenter path (dcpath). However with older libvirt we had to guess this value, or else the user had to supply it on the command line. This commit removes all the guessing code and the --dcpath parameter (which will now give an error). This requires libvirt >= 1.2.20 for virt-v2v, released Oct 2015. ---

Add a Common_utils.debug function for printing messages only when in verbose mode. Rich.

Don't pass these flags to dozens of functions. --- builder/builder.ml | 47 +++++++++-------- builder/cache.ml | 4 +- builder/cache.mli | 2 +- builder/cmdline.ml | 13 ++--- builder/downloader.ml | 14 +++-- builder/downloader.mli

Pass (again) around the libvirt URI string in the various input_libvirt subclasses so that input_libvirt#as_options does not need to connect to print the connection URI. As related change: pass input_conn as non-optional string parameter in classes that require one (all but input_libvirt_other, basically). This avoids the need for extra checks. --- v2v/input_libvirt.ml | 10

.. and a lot of refactoring. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167623 Rich.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167623

Enhance the Libvirt_utils module with libvirt connection objects, and read-only and read-writen open functions for them; adapt the rest of the mini-binding to use these objects, instead of opening + closing libvirt connections every time. This has different improvements: a) a libvirt connection is reused for different API calls, improving the communication with remote (input) servers b)

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:37 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > PROBLEMS: > - Target cluster defaults to "Default". > - Using Insecure = True, is that bad? > - -of qcow2 does not work, with multiple problems > - Need to attach disks to VMs somehow > > This adds a new output mode to virt-v2v. virt-v2v -o rhv-upload > streams images

The first patch was previously posted here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-December/msg00018.html That patch hasn't changed except that I made the ‘input_transport’ variable type-safe. The second patch adds a significant new mode for liberating data from VMware: the ability to copy VMs over SSH directly from ESXi hypervisors. Although this requires enabling SSH access (a