[Users] virt-v2v: invalid backend appliance

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:16:41AM +0000, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
> >Von: Richard W.M. Jones [rjones at redhat.com]
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055452

This will be fixed in libguestfs >= 1.24.5.

> > A workaround is to edit the virt-v2v source (one of the *.pm files)
> > and change s/appliance/direct/.
> 
> Thanks for opening a bug, Before destroing the sources... Is there
> any possibility to set an environment variable to set attach mode
> to DIRECT again?

No.  In Fedora >= 18 there is a non-upstream patch which
unconditionally calls $g->set_attach_method ("appliance") (in
lib/Sys/VirtConvert/GuestfsHandle.pm).  There is no way to use an
environment variable to override this.

Rich.

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