[ovirt-users] Re: error importing from VMware, and workaround

Hi, On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 1:52 AM Philip Brown <pbrown(a)medata.com&gt; wrote: > > more details in my saga of problem imports from VMware/vsphere to ovirt (4.4.1 node) > > I had done a couple successfully, but my next one kept failing. Couldnt figure out why. > > The only things resembling an error in the import logs, were this: > (trimmed a bit) > > "rpm -e vmware-tools-nox vmware-tools-common" > { "message": "libguestfs error: command: error: Failed dependencies:\n\tvmware-tools-nox = 8.3.19 is needed by (installed) vmware-tools-8.3.19-1310361.el6.x86_64", "timestamp": "2020-08-02T21:28:08.797433658+00:00", "type": "error" } > > > I thought to myself.. nah, that couldnt be it. import failed.. because you couldnt REMOVE a package??? that would be dumb. > but that was the problem. > > I started up the old vm, did a > > yum remove 'vmware-*' > > reexported from VMware, and then imported... > and this time, the import worked. > > Please fix that behaviour. Thanks for your email. Did you open a bug about this? Adding also Richard.