similar to: [PATCH UNFINISHED] v2v: Split up huge manual page into smaller pages.

Previously posted: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-November/msg00000.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-November/msg00001.html This completes the split and rewrite of the virt-v2v manual to make it much simpler to understand and digest. Rich.

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

This patch implements output to OpenStack Cinder volumes using OpenStack APIs. It has only been lightly tested, but appears to work. There are some important things to understand about how this works: (1) You must run virt-v2v in a conversion appliance running on top of OpenStack. And you must supply the name or UUID of this appliance to virt-v2v using the ‘-oo server-id=NAME|UUID’ parameter.

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,

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-August/thread.html#00287 v2: - The -oa option now gives an error; apparently Cinder cannot generally control sparse/preallocated behaviour, although certain Cinder backends can. - The -os option maps to Cinder volume type; suggested by Matt Booth. - Add a simple test.

v2: - Fix virt-p2v messages too. 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

v2 -> v3: - Lots of code cleanups. - Documentation. However this is still spooling the file into a temporary before the upload. It turns out that fixing this is going to require a small change to qemu. Rich.

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

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"

v5 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-March/msg00032.html There is only a single patch in this version because the other patches went upstream. This patch adds the virt-v2v -o rhv-upload mode (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1557273). Compared to v5, this adds the ability to make zero, trim and flush requests to the oVirt imageio server

Mainly minor fixes and code cleanups over the v4 patch. There are still several problems with this patch, but it is in a reviewable state, especially the Python code. Rich.

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.

v7 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-March/msg00143.html Since then: - Earlier patches are now upstream. - The to-do list is moved from the commit message to the TODO file. - This version forces -of raw + -oa sparse and gives an error in any other mode. We intend to lift these restrictions later. - Tested against latest imageio which supports longer timeouts,

v8 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-April/msg00022.html v8 -> v9: - Addresses the only feedback from Tomáš. Rich.

Previous versions: v3: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-March/msg00000.html v2: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-February/msg00177.html v1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-February/msg00139.html This completely rethinks the approach taken by the previous patches. Instead of trying to involve qemu's curl driver, this uses a small Python 3

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

Starting from libguestfs/virt-v2v 1.39.12, virt-v2v attempts to uninstall the VMware tools from Windows guests, so there is no need to remove them manually before the conversion. Thanks to: Ming Xie. --- docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod | 36 ---------------------------------- 1 file changed, 36 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod b/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod index

This isn't quite the full thing. I think that Pino is also working on replacing the ssh and scp commands in the v2v/input_vmx.ml file with libssh. Without those changes, -i vmx will still issue raw ssh and scp commands, which will use ssh-agent (or keyboard-interactive). The Xen input method doesn't use raw ssh and scp commands, so that one is OK. Rich.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1441197