On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:56:39AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > "Richard W.M. Jones" <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 09:06:29AM +0200, Michal Skrivanek wrote: > >> > >> > On 7 Nov 2016, at 22:16, Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > My last VM imported in 2 minutes. This one has been sitting for three > >> > hours. I think this is a bug. > >> > >> well, some time it does take a long time. Are you sure it was hung? > >> No I/O going on? > >> > >> adding libguestfs list > > > > The most likely reason for virt-v2v to hang (actually it's qemu which > > is hanging) is that you've run out of disk space. Most probably in > > /var/tmp but best to check all your host filesystems. > > No, the filesystem had plenty of space. > > It eventually did complete, after several hours. But I don't understand > why this particular VM took so long when others (with similar disk > sizes/usages/configurations) completed in only 1-2 minutes. Each VM is > effectively exactly the same (it's a build slave), so it's just the > basic installation of the particular Fedora release, the build tools, > and the build slave configuration. Beyond the underlying fedora release > version, the systems are configured exactly the same. > > I migrated four similar VMs. Three of them completed almost > immediately. The last too much longer. The ONLY thing different about > the one that took longer was that I decided to pack the disk first, so I > ran: > > vmware-toolbox-cmd disk shrink /
I'm not familiar with this command. In general terms, conversions take a time proportional to the amount of disk space in use by the guest. Running `virt-v2v -v -x ...' and observing the output will give you a good idea of what precisely it was doing for those hours. Rich. > in the VM prior to packaging it up as an OVA. All the OVA files are > relatively small and similar in size: > > -rw------- 1 warlord warlord 1959553024 Nov 7 10:40 fc20-64.ova > -rw------- 1 warlord warlord 1794907648 Nov 7 12:27 fc21-64.ova > -rw------- 1 warlord warlord 2023595520 Nov 6 10:04 fc22-64.ova > -rw------- 1 warlord warlord 3381622272 Nov 5 16:18 fc23-64.ova > > The FC23 and FC22 migrations took the least amount of time, even though > they were the largest. > > > Rich. > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 > [email protected] www.ihtfp.com > Computer and Internet Security Consultant -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
