Re: [ovirt-users] Import of OVA fails in 4.0.4

On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 10:11:43PM +0100, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 17:34:25 -0400 > "Derek Atkins" <derek(a)ihtfp.com&gt; wrote: > > > Hi again, > > > > After a bit more research I found this message in libguestfs[0] that > seems > > to imply the issue is related to Fedora 23 in that dracut was moved > from > > /sbin to /usr/bin. Apparently this was fixed in libguestfs on January > 28, > > 2016 by a change to convert_linux.ml [1]. But apparently this change > > isn't in the centos-7.2/ovirt-4.0.4 packages? > > Yes you're right. That change was not back-ported to the version of > virt-v2v on CentOS 7.2. But if I understand things correctly it should > appear in CentOS 7.3. Is waiting for Centos 7.3 an option for you?

> > I just looked through my ovirt host and canot find "convert_linux.ml" > > anywhere, so I have no idea how to actually apply this patch locally. > > You can't just patch the code localy (it's not Python). You'd need to > recompile the virt-v2v binary. > > > > Short term I suppose I can fix this by adding a symlink in the VM and > > repackage the OVA, but it would be nice to actually get this bugfix > > propagated; it's been almost a year? > > Adding Richard to the loop. I need the additional information as described here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392228 Rich.

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