Bug 696491

Summary: virt-convert:Error message shown up in debug info when convert to paravirt
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: zhe peng <zpeng>
Component: python-virtinstAssignee: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 6.1CC: dyuan, hjiang, mzhan, nzhang, syeghiay
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Description zhe peng 2011-04-14 07:05:18 UTC
Description of problem:
Convert a paravirt guest from a vmx file, error message shown up in debug info.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-virtinst-0.500.5-3.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.prepare vmx and vmdk file
download 3 files from link below:
http://fileshare.englab.nay.redhat.com/pub/section3/libvirtauto/vmware/
2.run command:

# virt-convert --arch=x86_64 --paravirt ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0.vmx --debug

  
Actual results:
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:14:04 DEBUG    Launched with command line:
/usr/bin/virt-convert --arch=x86_64 --paravirt ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0.vmx --debug
Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
config.version = "8"
^
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:14:04 DEBUG    Error parsing OVF XML: xmlParseDoc() failed
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:14:04 DEBUG    Creating directory ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:14:04 DEBUG    input_file: ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0.vmx
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:14:04 DEBUG    input_dir: /tmp/vmware_img
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:14:04 DEBUG    output_file: ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1/ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1.virt-image.xml
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:14:04 DEBUG    output_dir: /tmp/vmware_img
Generating output in 'virt-image' format to ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1/
Converting disk 'ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.vmdk' to type raw...
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:14:04 DEBUG    Running command: qemu-img convert -O raw /tmp/vmware_img/ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.vmdk /tmp/vmware_img/ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1/ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.raw
Done.


Expected results:
no error message shown up when use --debug option

Additional info:

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2011-07-28 15:33:50 UTC
Fixed in python-virtinst-0.600.0-1.el6

Comment 5 Huming Jiang 2011-08-02 09:29:40 UTC
Verified with the following components:
python-virtinst-0.600.0-1.el6.
libvirt-0.9.4-0rc1.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-171.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.174.el6.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1.prepare vmx and vmdk file
download 3 files from link below:
http://fileshare.englab.nay.redhat.com/pub/section3/libvirtauto/vmware/
2.run command:

# virt-convert --arch=x86_64 --paravirt ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0.vmx --debug


Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:21:37 DEBUG    Launched with command line:
/usr/bin/virt-convert --arch=x86_64 --paravirt ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0.vmx --debug
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:21:37 DEBUG    Importing VMX file:
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
...
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:21:37 DEBUG    VMDK file 'ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.vmdk' too big to be a descriptor
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:21:37 DEBUG    Creating directory ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:21:37 DEBUG    input_file: ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0.vmx
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:21:37 DEBUG    input_dir: /home
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:21:37 DEBUG    output_file: ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1/ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1.virt-image.xml
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:21:37 DEBUG    output_dir: ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1
Generating output in 'virt-image' format to ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1/
Converting disk 'ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.vmdk' to type raw...
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:21:37 DEBUG    Running command: qemu-img convert -O raw /home/ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.vmdk /home/ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1/ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.raw
...
done

Comment 6 Cole Robinson 2011-11-07 16:52:50 UTC
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Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 16:16:39 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.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1643.html