On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 02:41:30PM -0600, stef204 wrote: > The question is: What am I getting extra by using the -i libvirtxml option > as opposed to the more plain: > > % virt-v2v -i disk Win7-convert.vdi -of qcow2 -o local -os /mnt/partition2
Guests consist of the disk images, plus copious metadata. When you give just the disk image to virt-v2v (‘-i disk disk.img’), it has to make many guesses about the metadata. See this file for details: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/v2v/input_disk.ml Sometimes these guesses will be suboptimal, and by supplying the correct metadata you can get a more correct conversion (‘-i libvirtxml’ or even better getting the true metadata from VirtualBox). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
