On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 07:30:09PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > I used to disable the limit enforcing "sparse" in libguestfs upstream > source, but lately the simple check at the python plugin level was moved to > to the ocaml code, and I did not have time to understand it yet. > > If you want to remove the limit, try to look here: > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/51a9c874d3f0a9c4780f2cd3ee7072180446e685/v2v/output_rhv_upload.ml#L163 > > On RHEL, there is no such limit, and you can import vms to any kind of > storage. > > Richard, can we remove the limit on sparse format? I don't see how this > limit > helps anyone.
We already remove it downstream in all RHEL and LP builds. Here is the commit which does that: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/aa5608a922bd35db28f555e53aea2308361991dd We could remove it upstream, but AIUI it causes conversions to break with no easy way for users to understand what -oa modes are supported by what backends. To fix it properly we need a way for oVirt / imageio / whatever to describe what modes are possible for the current backend. > oVirt support several combinations: > > file: > - raw sparse > - raw preallocated > - qcow2 sparse (unsupported in v2v) > > block: > - raw preallocated > - qcow2 sparse (unsupported in v2v) > > It seems that oVirt SDK is does not have a good way to select the format > yet, so > virt-v2v cannot select the format for the user. This means the user need to > select > the format. Right. There are two open bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1600547 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1574734 Rich. -- 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 -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/TP6JXLNGSI7KUKGPUZS3RXMA5MMPV4UZ/
