Bug 689623

Summary:	Documentation of component needs to be improved
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jose Angel de Bustos Perez <jadebustos>
Component:	virt-v2v	Assignee:	Matthew Booth <mbooth>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	5.6	CC:	jadebustos, mbooth, mkenneth, rjones
Target Milestone:	rc	Flags:	pm-rhel: needinfo? (jadebustos)
Target Release:	5.6
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Description Jose Angel de Bustos Perez 2011-03-21 22:12:49 UTC

Hi, I don't know if this is the right place to put this.

In http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_for_Servers/2.2/pdf/Administration_Guide/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_for_Servers-2.2-Administration_Guide-en-US.pdf in page 261 and 262 in section "Preparing to convert a virtual machine running Windows" is missing that is necessary install libguestfs-winsupport and virtio-win.

That information is included in the same section at http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/pdf/Virtualization/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6-Virtualization-en-US.pdf pages 174 and 175.

In my own opinion should be included in hypervisor documentation that to use virt-v2v you need to use a RHEL server to convert VM from other hypervisors.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-03-21 23:27:20 UTC

libguestfs-winsupport is not a RHEL 5 package and is not
needed on RHEL 5.

Are you sure that you are using RHEL 5 and that you don't
mean RHEL 6?

The RHEL 6.1 virtualization guide (to be released) will indeed
make much more of a point of emphasizing libguestfs-winsupport
etc.

Comment 2 Jose Angel de Bustos Perez 2011-03-22 02:21:45 UTC

Hi,

let me explain myself in a more detailed way.

What I tried to explain is that virt-v2v is the tool you have to use to convert VMs from other hypersors to kvm (you can convert to other hypervisors as well) and it doesn't matter you have installed hypervisor or RHEL 5.x or RHEL 6.x to run kvm.

So I think that virt-v2v info from hypervisor documentation should be more accurrate. For instance including that you need virtio-win package if you use virt-v2v in RHEL 5.x but if you use RHEL 6.x you will need to install libguestfs-winsupport as well(the same way it is done at RHEL 6 doc).

Due to this matter I found some troubles trying to migrate from vSphere to RHEV the other day. The customer was worried due to he realised that documentation is not as good he thought taking into account that VMware doc is very accurate (forgive me to compare to VMware, this is a real case). Fortunately I was able to migrate to RHEV (I had some other problems due to a bug) and the customer now is very happy with RHEV.

My aim is to contribute to improve red hat hypervisor documentation. Nowadays there are a few people evaluating RHEV mainly to migrate from VMware and I am pretty sure that having more accurate documentation that make test easier and help these people to evaluate RHEV reducing unconfortable problems which are documented in other manuals would make the transition to RHEV faster and more satisfactory.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2014-03-07 13:55:01 UTC

This bug/component is not included in scope for RHEL-5.11.0 which is the last RHEL5 minor release. This Bugzilla will soon be CLOSED as WONTFIX (at the end of RHEL5.11 development phase (Apr 22, 2014)). Please contact your account manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2014-06-02 13:22:44 UTC

Thank you for submitting this request for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. We've carefully evaluated the request, but are unable to include it in RHEL5 stream. If the issue is critical for your business, please provide additional business justification through the appropriate support channels (https://access.redhat.com/site/support).