[ovirt-users] Import of OVA fails in 4.0.4

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Sun, November 6, 2016 4:07 pm, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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?

t depends.  When is 7.3 due?  If the answer is "next week", then yes, I
can wait.  If the answer is "in a month or four" then no.  ;-)

>> > 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.

Thanks, Rich.  I'm honestly not sure what the full log told you that my
snippets didn't, but upgrading to your EL7.3 pre-release packages solved
my problem.

Thanks,

Now back to continuing my setup and testing (and backups).

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-derek

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