Bug 1150880

Summary: virt-v2v: warning: display <graphics type='sdl'> was ignored when converting rhel5 guest with sdl graphics
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: tingting zheng <tzheng>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority: low    
Version: 7.1CC: codong, dyuan, juzhou, leiwang, mbooth, mzhan, ptoscano, rjones
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Whiteboard: V2V
Fixed In Version: libguestfs-1.27.61-1.1.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-03-05 13:46:01 UTC Type: Bug
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Description tingting zheng 2014-10-09 06:34:48 UTC
Description
virt-v2v: warning: display <graphics type='sdl'> was ignored when converting rhel5 guest with sdl graphics

Version:
virt-v2v-1.27.60-1.1.el7.x86_64
libguestfs-1.27.60-1.1.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Prepare a rhel5 xen guest with sdl graphics.
# virsh dumpxml rhel6.5-test 
    <graphics type='sdl' display='localhost:10.0' xauth='/root/.Xauthority'/>

2.Use virt-v2v to convert the guest,warning info shows:virt-v2v: warning: display <graphics type='sdl'> was ignored
# virt-v2v -ic xen+ssh://10.66.106.64 -os default rhel6.5-test  -on sdl-test  -of qcow2
[   0.0] Opening the source -i libvirt -ic xen+ssh://10.66.106.64 rhel6.5-test
virt-v2v: warning: display <graphics type='sdl'> was ignored
[  16.0] Creating an overlay to protect the source from being modified
[  31.0] Opening the overlay
[  57.0] Initializing the target -o libvirt -os default
[  57.0] Inspecting the overlay
[  67.0] Checking for sufficient free disk space in the guest
[  67.0] Estimating space required on target for each disk
[  67.0] Converting Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) to run on KVM
This guest has virtio drivers installed.
[ 146.0] Mapping filesystem data to avoid copying unused and blank areas
[ 147.0] Closing the overlay
[ 147.0] Copying disk 1/1 to /var/lib/libvirt/images/sdl-test-sda (qcow2)
    (100.00/100%)
[ 288.0] Creating output metadata

3.After conversion,check guest graphics,it defaults to vnc.

Actual results:
Confusing warning info shows:virt-v2v: warning: display <graphics type='sdl'> was ignored

Expected results:
No such warning info shows.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-10-09 08:48:57 UTC
Old virt-v2v was a bit confused as to how it handled
<graphics type='sdl'> .  If it saw it in the input, it would
parse it (and not give a warning), but none of the output
drivers would use it -- either it would be ignored or replaced
with spice.

New virt-v2v explicitly warns you that SDL is not going to be
handled.

I think I will make the warning clearer to fix this bug.  The basic
problem however is that SDL is not handled by the old or new virt-v2v.
And indeed cannot be handled because management layers like OpenStack
and RHEV don't work in a way that SDL could work.  SDL is only
relevant if you run qemu directly on your local machine.

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-10-09 09:17:31 UTC
Upstream fix:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/626d85d80be994065951b5f17706ca33ca5fc152

This changes the warning to:

virt-v2v: warning: virt-v2v does not support local displays, so
<graphics type='sdl'> in the input libvirt XML was ignored

which is hopefully clearer.

Comment 5 tingting zheng 2014-10-10 06:29:59 UTC
Tested with:
libguestfs-1.27.61-1.1.el7.x86_64
virt-v2v-1.27.61-1.1.el7.x86_64

# virt-v2v -ic xen+ssh://10.66.106.64 -os default rhel6.5-test  -on sdl-test  -of qcow2
[   0.0] Opening the source -i libvirt -ic xen+ssh://10.66.106.64 rhel6.5-test
virt-v2v: warning: virt-v2v does not support local displays, so <graphics 
type='sdl'> in the input libvirt XML was ignored
[  16.0] Creating an overlay to protect the source from being modified
[  54.0] Opening the overlay
[ 123.0] Initializing the target -o libvirt -os default
[ 125.0] Inspecting the overlay
[ 156.0] Checking for sufficient free disk space in the guest
[ 156.0] Estimating space required on target for each disk
[ 156.0] Converting Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) to run on KVM
This guest has virtio drivers installed.
[ 234.0] Mapping filesystem data to avoid copying unused and blank areas
[ 235.0] Closing the overlay
[ 236.0] Copying disk 1/1 to /var/lib/libvirt/images/sdl-test-sda (qcow2)
    (100.00/100%)
[ 318.0] Creating output metadata
Pool default refreshed

Domain sdl-test defined from /tmp/v2vlibvirt64f57b.xml

[ 320.0] Finishing off

The warning info shows as:
virt-v2v: warning: virt-v2v does not support local displays, so <graphics 
type='sdl'> in the input libvirt XML was ignored

After conversion,the graphics become vnc.

Refer to the above comments,move the bug to VERIFIED.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 13:46:01 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0303.html