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

[Matthew Booth]

On 10/01/14 15:38, Madhav V Diwan wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> To: Madhav V Diwan <mdiwan at diwanconsulting.com>, mbooth at redhat.com
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] issue with conversion of ESXi 5 centos VM to
> fedora19 ovirt host
> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:32:28 +0000
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> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:49:25PM -0500, Madhav V Diwan wrote:
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>> Hello everybody! I seem to be having a problem similar to 
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>> the posting from 
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>> " importing VM from ESXI "
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>> emitor at gmail.com
>> on    25.09.2013 21:10 UTC
>> " I'm not being able to import a VM from ESXI:"  
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>> In my case i have a bit more of a trace on the permission issue  but not
>> much more
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>>> 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)
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>> 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?
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>>  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.
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>>  this is an issue with Ovirt Version 3.3.2-1.fc19 
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>> virt-v2v version is 
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>> virt-v2v --version
>> 0.9.0
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>> and libguestfs version and qemu version are :
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>> libguestfs-1.22.7-4.fc19.x86_64
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>> QEMU emulator version 1.4.2
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> Are you running virt-v2v as root?  If so my guess is that it's this
> libvirt bug:
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>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045069
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045039
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> The easiest thing is to disable libvirt by doing:
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>   sudo bash
>   export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct
>   virt-v2v [..etc..]
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> Rich.
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> yes unfortunately i am running as root.. hate doing that but
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>  what account SHOULD i use? myself? VDSM? 
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> sudo -u who
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> interesting idea.. Ill try it now on a smaller vm.

You MUST run virt-v2v as root for conversions to oVirt. It needs to both
mount an nfs volume and setuid.

Matt
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Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS
Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team

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