[Users] issue with conversion of ESXi 5 centos VM to fedora19 ovirt host

[Matthew Booth]

It looks like a problem with the permissions on your NFS export storage
domain. The machine running virt-v2v must be able to mount the storage
domain and write to it as uid:gid == 36:36.

Matt

On 10/01/14 02:49, Madhav V Diwan wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody! I seem to be having a problem similar to 
> 
> the posting from 
> 
> " importing VM from ESXI "
> posted by 
> emitor at gmail.com
> on    25.09.2013 21:10 UTC
> " I'm not being able to import a VM from ESXI:"  
> 
> 
> In my case i have a bit more of a trace on the permission issue  but not
> much more
> 
>> virt-v2v: Transferring storage volume razDC_razDC: 107374182400 bytes
>> libguestfs: trace: set_verbose true
>> libguestfs: trace: set_verbose = 0
>> libguestfs: create: flags = 0, handle = 0x4725420, program = perl
>> libguestfs: trace: set_attach_method "appliance"
>> libguestfs: trace: set_backend "appliance"
>> libguestfs: trace: set_backend = 0
>> libguestfs: trace: set_attach_method = 0
>> libguestfs: trace: add_drive "/tmp/a7SyYhkkeX/8eff2927-3bff-4b15-bdd0-8c4e0f40652d/v2v.z_Lv0fTf/81388ffb-6aed-4ae4-bed8-6b1999e78907/2cc85d68-d343-4961-9a28-58e4c695d78f" "format:raw" "iface:ide" "name:sda"
>> libguestfs: trace: add_drive = -1 (error)
>> /tmp/a7SyYhkkeX/8eff2927-3bff-4b15-bdd0-8c4e0f40652d/v2v.z_Lv0fTf/81388ffb-6aed-4ae4-bed8-6b1999e78907/2cc85d68-d343-4961-9a28-58e4c695d78f: Permission denied at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Sys/Guestfs.pm line 670.
>> libguestfs: trace: close
>> libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x4725420 (state 0)
> 
>  
> Has this issue been solved ? if so how  as i do not see the resolution
> on the archives.  Else  would you all help me resolve it please?
> 
>  It is very annoying to have a hundred gig disk copied over to your NFS
> export and then deleted because qemu or libguestfs has a permissions
> issue in opening it.
> 
> 
> 
>  this is an issue with Ovirt Version 3.3.2-1.fc19 
> 
> virt-v2v version is 
> 
> virt-v2v --version
> 0.9.0
> 
> and libguestfs version and qemu version are :
> 
> libguestfs-1.22.7-4.fc19.x86_64
> 
> QEMU emulator version 1.4.2
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS
Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team

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