[Users] oVirt 3.2.1 - virt-v2v import problem

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Apr 23 12:28:48 UTC 2013


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:34:04PM +0200, Piotr Szubiakowski wrote:
> Hi,
> I have problem with virt-v2v tool. I'm trying to import XEN image.
> On oVirt 3.0 the import works well. On oVirt 3.2.1 there is an
> error:
> 
> virt-v2v -i libvirtxml -o rhev -os localhost:/var/ovirt/export api.xml
> arch-dev.img: 100% [==============================================================================================================================================================================================================]D
> 0h02m53s
> Please enter your authentication name: vdsm at rhevh
> Please enter your password:
> could not connect to libvirt (URI = NULL): authentication failed:
> authentication failed [code=45 domain=7] at
> /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Sys/VirtConvert/GuestfsHandle.pm line
> 96.
> 
> It looks like after image upload, virt-v2v ties to connect to
> libvirtd. The vdsm at rhevh login with shibboleth password doesn't
> work. The oVirt is installed on Fedora 18. Engine and vdsmd runs on
> the same host. Is there any difference between authentication to
> libvirt on oVirt 3.0 and oVirt 3.2? Could I ask you for help with
> this problem?

virt-v2v is known to be broken on Fedora 18 at the moment.

If you contact us upstream there is a complex workaround that
can be done.

Really it does need to be fixed properly however.

Rich.

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