Hi, I just tried using the OVA import feature in 4.0.4 to import an OVA file created from VMware-Workstation-12. I packaged the OVA, got it onto my ovirt host, and then go the Admin GUI and under the Virtual Machines tab clicked on Import. From there I chose Source: VMware Virtual Appliance (OVA), and selected the (local-to-the-host) path where I put the OVA file. After clicking Load it displayed the vm name in the window. I click on that and click the right arrow to and then Next. Then I select my storage domain to use and continue. It loads the VM and starts to process it internally with virt-v2v, but then it inexplicably fails. The only message in the GUI is: Failed to import Vm <vm name> to Data Center Default, Cluster Default I tried to look into /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log looking for any errors. I found this: Thread-88166::ERROR::2016-11-05 16:36:09,219::v2v::674::root::(_run) Job u'cdb1e eb7-63f3-46e8-abd5-5292dcc8809a' failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/v2v.py", line 669, in _run self._import() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/v2v.py", line 696, in _import self._proc.stderr.read(1024))) V2VProcessError: Job u'cdb1eeb7-63f3-46e8-abd5-5292dcc8809a' process failed exit -code: 1, stderr: virt-v2v: error: unable to rebuild initrd (/boot/initramfs-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64.img) because mkinitrd or dracut was not found in the guest If reporting bugs, run virt-v2v with debugging enabled and include the complete output: virt-v2v -v -x [...] I don't understand this error because /usr/bin/dracut certainly exists in the VM. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get around this? Thanks, -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord(a)MIT.EDU PGP key available _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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?

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.

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?

Thanks, -derek [0] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2016-January/msg00138.html [1] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/569ad259b4726fbdabf380bdc... On Sat, November 5, 2016 5:02 pm, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > I just tried using the OVA import feature in 4.0.4 to import an OVA file > created from VMware-Workstation-12. I packaged the OVA, got it onto my > ovirt host, and then go the Admin GUI and under the Virtual Machines tab > clicked on Import. From there I chose Source: VMware Virtual Appliance > (OVA), and selected the (local-to-the-host) path where I put the OVA > file. After clicking Load it displayed the vm name in the window. I > click on that and click the right arrow to and then Next. Then I select > my storage domain to use and continue. It loads the VM and starts to > process it internally with virt-v2v, but then it inexplicably fails. > The only message in the GUI is: > Failed to import Vm <vm name> to Data Center Default, Cluster Default > > I tried to look into /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log looking for any errors. I > found this: > > Thread-88166::ERROR::2016-11-05 16:36:09,219::v2v::674::root::(_run) Job > u'cdb1e > eb7-63f3-46e8-abd5-5292dcc8809a' failed > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/v2v.py", line 669, in _run > self._import() > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/v2v.py", line 696, in > _import > self._proc.stderr.read(1024))) > V2VProcessError: Job u'cdb1eeb7-63f3-46e8-abd5-5292dcc8809a' process > failed exit > -code: 1, stderr: virt-v2v: error: unable to rebuild initrd > (/boot/initramfs-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64.img) because mkinitrd or dracut was > not found in the guest > > If reporting bugs, run virt-v2v with debugging enabled and include the > complete output: > > virt-v2v -v -x [...] > > I don't understand this error because /usr/bin/dracut certainly exists > in the VM. > > Anyone have any suggestions on how to get around this? > > Thanks, > > -derek > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > warlord(a)MIT.EDU PGP key available > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 derek(a)ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users