On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 02:10:51PM +0000, Matthew Booth wrote: > On 26/01/11 13:56, Kenneth Armstrong wrote: > >Thanks Rich, > > > >I tried this again and it still failed. This is a single vmdk disk > >with two partitions. I deleted out the second partition (that didn't > >have anything on it) and it worked. However, i have other vm's to > >import that I can't delete out the second partition, so that isn't > >ideal. > > > >I was looking through the virt-v2v script itself (this is on RHEL 6) > >and noticed that it was supposed to run the inspection before it > >creates the target vm image (I'm no PERL guy, but that's what I got > >from the script). However, when I run the utitlity, it goes through > >the whole process of creating the target vm (which took about 2.5 > >hours on my last try) and then failed because "multiboot operating > >systems are not supported by virt-v2v." > > > >Could the utility be changed to check that before it tries to convert > >it? That would save a lot of time from being wasted by a process that > >won't work. > > Unfortunately not. It can't inspect the guest to determine that it > can't convert it until it has copied it. It's the copy that takes > the time. Creating the new target volume and conversion only take a > minute or so. > > It's my understanding that the recovery console is installed on a > separately bootable partition which is normally hidden from Windows, > and that it contains a stripped-down Windows installation. Is that > right? If so, it explains the problem you're seeing. virt-inspector > would see this as a second OS. virt-v2v would see multiple OSs and > refuse to convert it. If so, we obviously need to handle this.
It would still help to see the output of virt-inspector on the disk image. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
