similar to: [v2v PATCH] -i libvirt: print URI without connecting

Currently virt-v2v has few custom C-based functions for libvirt operations, which are limited in what they do, and there is a lot of duplicated code. Instead, switch to ocaml-libvirt for all the libvirt interaction currently done by the Libvirt_utils module. This has few advantages: - each input & output module now opens a libvirt connection only once, only when needed - no need to pass

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)

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

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. ---

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

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.

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

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.

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

This is built on top of the following patch series: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-April/msg00054.html 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

Proposed small change to the command line of virt-v2v when specifying that you want VDDK mode. Rich.

This refactoring takes the nbdkit-specific code from the ‘-it vddk’ mode and puts it into a separate module. The idea is to reuse this module (in future commits) to support ssh, curl and rate limiting. This refactoring is not quite neutral because it moves some of the prechecking into the Nbdkit.create function. This means it will happen a little bit later in the cycle (in input#source instead

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

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

Libvirt >= 2.1.0 now allows you to open files which have a "json:" QEMU pseudo-URL as backingfile, whereas previously it would fail hard in this case (RHBZ#1134878). When virt-v2v performs conversions from Xen (over SSH) or vCenter (over HTTPS) it uses these pseudo-URLs as backingfiles. We had to tell people to use LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct to avoid libvirt in this situation. 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

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

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