[Users] qemu: too many ide bus during v2v migration
Hi, we're currently migrating over from esxi to ovirt. V2v is pretty smooth, up until I try to migrate a vm with more than 3 SCSI disks. The disks are exported from esxi as IDE and after the disks have been copied over, the process fails with qemu: Too many IDE bus Is there a practical way to fix this? Thanks for your help, Stefan ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] qemu: too many ide bus during v2v migration
On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 15:00 +0100, Stefan Wendler wrote: Hi, we're currently migrating over from esxi to ovirt. V2v is pretty smooth, up until I try to migrate a vm with more than 3 SCSI disks. The disks are exported from esxi as IDE and after the disks have been copied over, the process fails with qemu: Too many IDE bus Is there a practical way to fix this? Unfortunately this is a legacy limitation of virt-v2v which is very hard to remove. You can try to fix it by manually patching GuestfsHandle.pm in virt-v2v to remove the 'iface' argument to add_drive_opts. Specifically, find the following: $g-add_drive_opts($path, format = $format, iface = $interface, name = $name); and change it to: $g-add_drive_opts($path, format = $format, name = $name); and find the following: $g-add_drive_opts($transfer, format = 'raw', iface = $interface, readonly = 1) if defined($transfer); and change it to: $g-add_drive_opts($transfer, format = 'raw', readonly = 1) if defined($transfer); The effects of this change are not well tested, and will definitely break conversion of older RHEL guests. Guests which natively support virtio should probably be ok, though. Matt ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] qemu: too many ide bus during v2v migration
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 03:00:37PM +0100, Stefan Wendler wrote: Hi, we're currently migrating over from esxi to ovirt. V2v is pretty smooth, up until I try to migrate a vm with more than 3 SCSI disks. The disks are exported from esxi as IDE and after the disks have been copied over, the process fails with qemu: Too many IDE bus Is there a practical way to fix this? You only need to use virt-v2v on operating system disks. Any data disks can just be 'dd'-ed over. Of course this may not be helpful if you have 3 or more OS disks, but we have fixed this upstream so at least it won't be broken in the next version ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
