[ovirt-users] Re: [External] : Re: Cannot successfully import Windows vm to new ovirt deployment

On Oct 26, 2023 at 5:51 PM, Simon Coter <simon.coter(a)oracle.com&gt; 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 <netracerx(a)mac.com&gt; 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 netracerx(a)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 <netracerx(a)mac.com&gt; 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 netracerx(a)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(a)ovirt.org&gt; 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/aylya0u16l55ef... > > > > > import log 1: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xuwslr1sz9lrvb... > > > > > import log 2: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yuimr3j0hwdpkz... > > > > > import log 3: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ipeol7uk00gimy... > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > > > > > Privacy Statement: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html__;!... > > > > > oVirt Code of Conduct: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/communi... > > > > > List Archives: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@o... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >