[ovirt-users] Import of OVA fails in 4.0.4

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 10:11:43PM +0100, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 17:34:25 -0400
> "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi again,
> > 
> > After a bit more research I found this message in libguestfs[0] that seems
> > to imply the issue is related to Fedora 23 in that dracut was moved from
> > /sbin to /usr/bin.  Apparently this was fixed in libguestfs on January 28,
> > 2016 by a change to convert_linux.ml [1].  But apparently this change
> > isn't in the centos-7.2/ovirt-4.0.4 packages?
> 
> Yes you're right. That change was not back-ported to the version of
> virt-v2v on CentOS 7.2. But if I understand things correctly it should
> appear in CentOS 7.3. Is waiting for Centos 7.3 an option for you?
> 
> 
> > I just looked through my ovirt host and canot find "convert_linux.ml"
> > anywhere, so I have no idea how to actually apply this patch locally.
> 
> You can't just patch the code localy (it's not Python). You'd need to
> recompile the virt-v2v binary.
> 
> 
> > Short term I suppose I can fix this by adding a symlink in the VM and
> > repackage the OVA, but it would be nice to actually get this bugfix
> > propagated; it's been almost a year?
> 
> Adding Richard to the loop.

I need the additional information as described here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392228

Rich.

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