[Users] virt-v2v: invalid backend appliance

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 07:56:22PM +0000, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> just tried to run virt-v2v on Fedora 20. Disk conversion works
> flawlessly but in the end the process fails with:
> 
> libguestfs: create: flags = 0, handle = 0x4fe26a0, program = perl
> invalid backend: appliance at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Sys/VirtConvert/GuestfsHandle.pm line 83.
> libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x4fe26a0 (state 0)
> 
> I'm using the same scripts & configuration files with Fedora 19.
> No problems there.
> 
> Any ideas what is going wrong?

This is a bug in libguestfs:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055452

A workaround is to edit the virt-v2v source (one of the *.pm files)
and change s/appliance/direct/.

Rich.

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