similar to: v2v: vddk: Switch to using ‘-it vddk’ to specify VDDK as input transport.

This patch isn't quite complete (see ‘assert false’). Currently we have a bunch of ad hoc options like --vddk* and --vdsm* (and proposed to add --rhv*) to handle extra parameters for input and output modes/transports. This complicates the command line parsing and also the clarity of the command line (becauseit's not very obvious which options apply to which side of the conversion).

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

v6 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-March/msg00126.html This makes a number of significant changes: - Input and output options now use a uniform set of -io and -oo parameters. - For -o rhv-upload, we use ‘-oo rhv-cafile=/tmp/ca.pem’ etc. The ‘--rhv*’ options have been dropped. - Rearranges the documentation. - As before includes (untested) support for zero,

Changes the output to look like: [ 0.0] Opening the source -i libvirt -ic vpx://... guestname --vddk ... --vddk-thumbprint ... --- v2v/input_libvirt_vddk.ml | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/v2v/input_libvirt_vddk.ml b/v2v/input_libvirt_vddk.ml index 13a6a1561..e5122ccdd 100644 --- a/v2v/input_libvirt_vddk.ml +++

Previously the presence of the ‘--vddk <libdir>’ option magically enabled VDDK mode. However we want to introduce other transports for VMware conversions so this wasn't a very clean choice. With this commit you must use ‘-it vddk’ to specify that you want VDDK as a disk transport. The previous ‘--vddk <libdir>’ option has been renamed to ‘--vddk-libdir <libdir>’ to be

I still have not found time to fully review the series, but I found out that this patch breaks VDDK. See below. On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:24:23 +0000 "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > Currently we have a bunch of ad hoc options like --vddk* and --vdsm* > (and proposed to add --rhv*) to handle extra parameters for input and > output modes/transports. This

Currently we have a bunch of ad hoc options like --vddk* and --vdsm* (and proposed to add --rhv*) to handle extra parameters for input and output modes/transports. This complicates the command line parsing and also the clarity of the command line (becauseit's not very obvious which options apply to which side of the conversion). Replace these with a general mechanism for handling input and

Use -ip instead of --password-file, and various refactorings. It strikes me that we should probably deprecate and eventually remove virt-v2v-copy-to-local. With the introduction of the new SSH and VDDK transports, and with RHEL 5 Xen becoming more irrelevant, it's no longer needed. Rich.

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

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"

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

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

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.

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.

This patch set is still for discussion only. See 3/3 for the current list of problems. However this will upload an image to an oVirt or RHV server, although you must have absolutely the latest snapshot version of 4.2 for it to work. Rich.

I couldn't get this to work in the end. This is the latest non-working version. This email documents what doesn't work for the permanent record. The central problem is that VDDK InitEx() appears to dlopen() various of its own plugins. Although I wasn't able to capture exactly what dlopen() command it is running, the plugins cannot be loaded because they rely on the recompiled

In v7: everything should work now! The re-exec code is slightly simplified, with Rich's suggestion to pass the original LD_LIBRARY_PATH rather than just the prefix being added, and I've now finished wiring up the initial dlopen() check into code that correctly computes the right prefix dir to add to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Eric Blake (1): vddk: Add re-exec with altered environment Richard

Hi, this is a mostly done attempt to switch to ocaml-libvirt, embedding the latest version of it from git. This way, it is possible to improve the way v2v connects to libvirt for both input, and output modules, and interacts with libvirt (e.g. no more virsh calls needed in virt-v2v). As side effect, virt-v2v now requires libvirt, as keeping it optional would create too much burden. I could not

Hi, this series switches virt-2v to ocaml-libvirt, embedding the latest version of it from git. This way, it is possible to improve the way v2v connects to libvirt for both input, and output modules, and interacts with libvirt (e.g. no more virsh calls needed in virt-v2v). As side effect, virt-v2v now requires libvirt, as keeping it optional would create too much burden. I could not test all

Hi, this is a mostly done attempt to switch to ocaml-libvirt, embedding the latest version of it from git. This way, it is possible to improve the way v2v connects to libvirt for both input, and output modules, and interacts with libvirt (e.g. no more virsh calls needed in virt-v2v). As side effect, virt-v2v now requires libvirt, as keeping it optional would create too much burden. I could not