Funny you ask that, as I was about to make the point the same VMs (as I've tried with others of mine) will import and boot on Proxmox and XCP-NG just fine.
> > On Oct 26, 2023 at 5:51 PM, Simon Coter <simon.co...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Did you try with one smaller VM ? > At the same time, are you able to check if the OVF works on other hypervisors > (like VirtualBox on your laptop) ? > > > > Simon > > > > > > > On Oct 27, 2023, at 12:50 AM, Michaal Rutledge <netrac...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes, I see that it identifies the boot record (though, why it's MBR and not > > GPT is beyond me). > > > > Yes, the VM was shut down properly prior to OVF export. And it's not an > > OVA. Also, this happens to EVERY VM I've tried to import from ESXi, so > > there seems to be something more to this to me. > > > > Michaal Rutledge netrac...@mac.com 972-896-4948 > > > > On 10/26/2023 4:54 PM, Simon Coter wrote: > > > > > > > > virt-v2v identifies the MBR but it’s not able to mount :) > > > > > > was the VM properly shutdown on VMware when you did the export ? > > > An alternative plan could be to: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > extract the OVA content (by “tar” command) > > > > > > convert the vdisk to qcow2 format (by qemu-img) > > > > > > import the vdisk > > > > > > create one new Windows VM and add the imported disk > > > > > > try to boot :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ps: once the disk is imported you can also evaluate its status by > > > presenting the same to an other VM (and there try to mount) > > > > > > > > > > > > Simon > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 26, 2023, at 11:49 PM, Michaal Rutledge <netrac...@mac.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > But previously, Tomas said that he could see where virt-v2v DID > > > > properly identify the OS, so why is virt-v2v unable to determine how to > > > > mount the disk to load the OS? Even during the import stage, it > > > > properly identifies the partitions, so why is it failing is what I'm > > > > not seeing. It boots in ESXi just fine, that's where the OVF was > > > > exported from. Disk has no errors there. So I kinda need a little more > > > > to go on here. Nice to know it can't mount the boot partition, would be > > > > nicer to know WHY it can't mount the boot partition when it boots in > > > > VMware without issue. Is there something that needs to be done to the > > > > VM and it's OS drive before it's exported? > > > > > > > > Michaal Rutledge netrac...@mac.com 972-896-4948 > > > > > > > > On 10/26/2023 4:31 PM, Simon Coter wrote: > > > > > > > > > It’s failing due to this error: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > import-75636d68-d067-4570-84b3-3829c5cf1963-20231026T153906.log:content: > > > > > DOS/MBR boot sector MS-MBR Windows 7 english at offset 0x163 > > > > > "Invalid partition table" at offset 0x17b "Error loading operating > > > > > system" at offset 0x19a "Missing operating system"; partition 1 : > > > > > ID=0xee, start-CHS (0x0,0,2), end-CHS (0x1fb,254,63), startsector 1, > > > > > 4294967295 sectors > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So, “virt-v2v” is not able to get your Windows-7 disk mounted to load > > > > > the OS. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Simon > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 26, 2023, at 11:23 PM, Michaal R via Users > > > > > > <users@ovirt.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Okay, it seems it got a bit further, but still errored out. I > > > > > > watched it get past the disk import (or what looked like the disk > > > > > > import), but I couldn't see in the vdsm.log file where it failed > > > > > > the remaining import. I tried as both Other OS and as Linux (just > > > > > > in case the latter had a chance), but still failures. There were > > > > > > errors from vdsmd like "cannot lookup default selinux label for > > > > > > /var/tmp/.guestfs-36/appliance.d/initrd" and some SELinux errors > > > > > > with access control from qemu-kvm (the latter of which I ran the > > > > > > fix scripts for as suggested by Cockpit). Below are the log file > > > > > > links from this run. > > > > > > > > > > > > vdsm.log: > > > > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aylya0u16l55ef8k36qu8/vdsm-10.26.23-15.37.log?rlkey=mawo0smdau51ja4a042bhsrqi&dl=0__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!NHFEfX3K7rmRgLY00KvhRZsvZ4f_N6dn0tAShyfcyeYZ9A99xucudf2C1mGtfYvttSOAKQb_maUM6w$ > > > > > > import log 1: > > > > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xuwslr1sz9lrvbyhacasa/import-75636d68-d067-4570-84b3-3829c5cf1963-20231026T153906.log?rlkey=kned3464ek7ctsggqddix0dsi&dl=0__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!NHFEfX3K7rmRgLY00KvhRZsvZ4f_N6dn0tAShyfcyeYZ9A99xucudf2C1mGtfYvttSOAKQZjHc7hRg$ > > > > > > import log 2: > > > > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yuimr3j0hwdpkz4siofum/import-4a6237d9-05a0-4d5a-a7b1-ff01764a761f-20231026T155635.log?rlkey=y6kp8ttd59sbh0j8k16eauvsw&dl=0__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!NHFEfX3K7rmRgLY00KvhRZsvZ4f_N6dn0tAShyfcyeYZ9A99xucudf2C1mGtfYvttSOAKQb2bdYygQ$ > > > > > > import log 3: > > > > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ipeol7uk00gimyn6rgfrg/import-44bb07d9-fb1d-4e91-a025-35dc70b55cd8-20231026T160749.log?rlkey=yrrznpyagxhhgkwqsokgmk09z&dl=0__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!NHFEfX3K7rmRgLY00KvhRZsvZ4f_N6dn0tAShyfcyeYZ9A99xucudf2C1mGtfYvttSOAKQYrVJ_ATw$ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org > > > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org > > > > > > Privacy Statement: > > > > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!NHFEfX3K7rmRgLY00KvhRZsvZ4f_N6dn0tAShyfcyeYZ9A99xucudf2C1mGtfYvttSOAKQYZUcAT1w$ > > > > > > oVirt Code of Conduct: > > > > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!NHFEfX3K7rmRgLY00KvhRZsvZ4f_N6dn0tAShyfcyeYZ9A99xucudf2C1mGtfYvttSOAKQYpOT8vxg$ > > > > > > List Archives: > > > > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/WRNUCEDMDKUACQZPELZJAL6GAOR27XVE/__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!NHFEfX3K7rmRgLY00KvhRZsvZ4f_N6dn0tAShyfcyeYZ9A99xucudf2C1mGtfYvttSOAKQbwRSBMCQ$ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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