[ovirt-users] Importing VM from Xen Server 6.5

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 09:45:52AM +0300, Shahar Havivi wrote:
> On 10.08.16 06:45, Anantha Raghava wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I even attempted to run command virsh -c xen+ssh://root@xenhost and I get
> > error "/*error: End of file reading data: sh: nc: command not found:
> > Input/output error"*/
> First you need to be able to login via virsh (before trying to import via
> oVirt).
> 
> I never encounter this error before,
> I guess that nc is netcat...,
> try to install nmap-ncat:
> $ dnf info nmap-ncat
> 
> Adding Richard which may have more input.

Yes, you need to install 'nc' on the *target* (Xen) machine.

This is because libvirt's ssh transport uses nc:
https://libvirt.org/guide/html/Application_Development_Guide-Architecture-Transports.html

Rich.

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