[ovirt-users] converting windows guests with v2v, where to put the iso?

[Jeremiah Jahn]

The Supplementary channel isn't available to CentOS/SL linux folks or
through EPEL. So some Ovirt/distro agnostic documentation would be
great.  There is also the same problem with the windows guest agents
as well.  I'm really not sure why these two packages aren't shipped as
part of ovirt and are RHEL only.

Just my two cents.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Matthew Booth <mbooth at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 22/04/14 11:26, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 09:31:51AM -0500, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:
>>> I'm getting the following error. RedHat seems to thin the answer is to
>>> use their virtio-win rpm. As far as I can tell, this is not available
>>> anywhere, So I've just got to go and get the iso that it installs from
>>> kvm.org. Ok, done. now that I have said iso, where the heck do I put
>>> it, since it doesn't seem to align with the structure that v2v is
>>> looking for.
>>>
>>> virt-v2v: Installation failed because the following files referenced
>>> in the configuration file are required, but missing:
>>> /usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/i386/WinXP
>>
>> Matt, do we have any documentation about where to put this ISO?
>> I believe it's got something to do with the contents of the file
>> /etc/virt-v2v.conf ...
>
> You have 2 options:
>
> 1. Install the virtio-win rpm, which is available in the RHEL
> Supplementary subchannel.
>
> 2. Source the expanded Windows virtio drivers some other way, and put
> them in the expected place. In the above case, it's expecting to find
> the virtio driver (collection of files including *.inf) for i386 Windows
> XP in the above directory.
>
> Matt
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