[ovirt-users] [Libguestfs] OVA import of FC21 VM hangs during virt-v2v conversion?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi Rich,

On Wed, November 16, 2016 1:34 pm, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:31:40AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> > Running `virt-v2v -v -x ...' and observing the output will give you a
>> > good idea of what precisely it was doing for those hours.
>>
>> Well, as I said in my original email, it was hanging at running
>> setfiles:
>>
>> commandrvf: stdout=n stderr=y flags=0x0
>> commandrvf: setfiles -F -e /sysroot/dev -e /sysroot/proc -e
>> /sysroot/selinux -e /sysroot/sys -r /sysroot -q
>> /sysroot/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts /sysroot/
>> Can't stat exclude path "/sysroot/selinux", No such file or directory
>> - ignoring.
>
> OK that's interesting.  setfiles is doing SELinux labelling of the
> filesystem.  The time taken should be approximately proportional to
> the number of files in the filesystem.
>
> What it precisely does is to run the host's /usr/sbin/setfiles command
> over the whole guest filesystem, using the guest's
> /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts to control the
> labelling.  So if either of the guest filesystem or the guest's
> file_contexts is particularly large, or setfiles has a bug, then it
> might take a long time.

I suppose there could be a bug.  I just verified that it's absolutely
setfiles:

14:06:20 I: Started virt-v2v -v -x -i ova /ovirt/import/fc21-64.ova -of
raw -o null
14:06:20 O: [   0.0] Opening the source -i ova /ovirt/import/fc21-64.ova
[snip]
14:07:25 E: libguestfs: trace: v2v: aug_get = "targeted"
14:07:25 E: libguestfs: trace: v2v: aug_close
14:07:25 E: guestfsd: main_loop: new request, len 0x28
14:07:25 E: guestfsd: main_loop: proc 26 (aug_close) took 0.03 seconds
14:07:25 E: libguestfs: trace: v2v: aug_close = 0
14:07:25 E: libguestfs: trace: v2v: selinux_relabel
"/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts" "/" "force:true"
14:07:25 E: guestfsd: main_loop: new request, len 0x6c
14:07:25 E: commandrvf: stdout=n stderr=y flags=0x0
14:07:25 E: commandrvf: setfiles -F -e /sysroot/dev -e /sysroot/proc -e
/sysroot/selinux -e /sysroot/sys -r /sysroot -q
/sysroot/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts /sysroot/
14:07:25 E: Can't stat exclude path "/sysroot/selinux", No such file or
directory - ignoring.

[ Spacing Emphasis Mine -- there is no break (except time) here ]

16:00:42 E: libguestfs: trace: v2v: selinux_relabel = 0
16:00:42 O: virt-v2v: This guest has virtio drivers installed.
16:00:42 E: libguestfs: trace: v2v: rm_f "/.autorelabel"
16:00:42 E: guestfsd: main_loop: proc 467 (selinux_relabel) took 6797.01
seconds
16:00:42 E: guestfsd: main_loop: new request, len 0x3c
[SNIP]
16:01:13 I: Finished with exitcode 0

So it looks like it took almost two hours to run the setfiles on a 4GB
filesystem.  The rest of the import was only a minute or three.

I'm happy to help debug this however I can in order to fix any potential
bugs.  However I admit it probably wont affect me any more -- I don't
expect to migrate many more VMs.  Still, I'm happy to work towards the
common good.  :)

> Rich.
>
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-derek

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