Bug 1318014

Summary:	virt-v2v should be deployed by default on both RHEL and RHEV-H hosts
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	Robert McSwain <rmcswain>
Component:	ovirt-engine	Assignee:	Francesco Romani <fromani>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Nisim Simsolo <nsimsolo>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	3.6.3	CC:	cshao, danken, eedri, gklein, huzhao, kshukla, leiwang, lsurette, mavital, michal.skrivanek, mkalinin, mxie, mzhan, nsimsolo, pdwyer, rbalakri, Rhev-m-bugs, srevivo, tzheng, weiwang, xiaodwan, yaniwang, ycui, ykaul
Target Milestone:	ovirt-4.0.0-alpha	Keywords:	ZStream
Target Release:	4.0.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Clones:	1322308 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-08-23 20:33:40 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	Virt	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1292096
Bug Blocks:	1322308, 1324491

Description Robert McSwain 2016-03-15 18:34:15 UTC

Description of problem:

RHEV 3.6 Administration Guide 
11.2.6. Adding a VMware Instance as a Virtual Machine Provider:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.6/html-single/Administration_Guide/index.html#Adding_a_VMware_Instance_as_a_Virtual_Machine_Provider

It would appear that RHEV-H isn't supported for this feature since it does not include the virt-v2v utility. If possible RHEV-H should maintain similiar features to a full RHEL host.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Versions after 3.6


How reproducible:
Deploy RHEV with only RHEV-H hypervisors.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Untested, as it is not currently supported.

Actual results:
After reviewing the documentation, and checking the hypervisors I do not believe this feature is available. It depends on the virt-v2v tool (/usr/bin/virt-v2v) which does not exist in the rhev-h image.


Expected results:
RHEV-H should include the virt-v2v tool to allow VMWare machines to be imported.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michal Skrivanek 2016-03-16 06:32:38 UTC

I would qualify this as a bug. We couldn't include it in 7.1 duing original development phase, but nowadays it is available (also with fixes tracked in bug 1292096) which allows us to include it by default on RHEL as well as RHEV-H

Raising priority for this as currently the situation is confusing. It is mentioned in documentation that you need to install v2v packages manually, but it's not obvious to see you didn't do that in UI - import looks like working ok and just fails the actual conversion later on.

Comment 2 Michal Skrivanek 2016-03-16 06:46:00 UTC

PPC hosts are filtered out correctly since bug 1280264

Comment 4 Eyal Edri 2016-03-21 14:23:03 UTC

Should this bug be on ovirt-engine if the dependency is needed on the host side?
Shouldn't it be on RHEV-H?

Comment 5 Michal Skrivanek 2016-03-21 16:06:35 UTC

(In reply to Eyal Edri from comment #4)
> Should this bug be on ovirt-engine if the dependency is needed on the host
> side?
> Shouldn't it be on RHEV-H?

it's tracking both sides. does it matter? if yes then we can clone it and split it

Comment 7 Mike McCune 2016-03-28 22:37:22 UTC

This bug was accidentally moved from POST to MODIFIED via an error in automation, please see mmccune with any questions

Comment 9 Francesco Romani 2016-04-04 07:01:23 UTC

bug targeted against master, http://gerrit.ovirt.org/54866 merged -> MODIFIED

to verify, just check that once Vdsm is installed, virt-v2v is installed too on the virtualization host.

Comment 11 Nisim Simsolo 2016-08-21 13:50:23 UTC

Verified. ovirt-engine-4.0.2.6-0.1.el7ev

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-23 20:33:40 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/RHEA-2016-1743.html