Bug 798224

Summary: Improve the output messages when converting rhel3 guest
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: tingting zheng <tzheng>
Component: virt-v2vAssignee: Matthew Booth <mbooth>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 6.3CC: cwei, mzhan, rjones
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Description tingting zheng 2012-02-28 11:33:25 UTC 
Description of problem:
RHEL3 is in ELS(Extended Lifecycle Support) from October 31, 2010 to January 30, 2014",
so we still need to support RHEL3.9 now.
For RHEL3 guest,virt-v2v handle the block driver as IDE and netowrk driver be e1000 
after conversion.The output messages when converting rhel3 guest is not so friendly.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-v2v-0.8.6-1.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.10-2.el6.x86_64
libguestfs-1.16.5-1.el6.x86_64


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use virt-v2v to convert a rhel3 guest
# virt-v2v -ic qemu+ssh://10.66.72.122/system -os default -b breth0 kvm-rhel3.9-i386
root.72.122's password: 
root.72.122's password: 
RHEL-3.9-32.raw: 100% [===========================================================================================]D 0h02m04s
virt-v2v: No capability in config matches os='linux' name='virtio' distro='rhel' major='3' minor='9'
virt-v2v: No capability in config matches os='linux' name='cirrus' distro='rhel' major='3' minor='9'
virt-v2v: WARNING: Display driver was updated to cirrus, but unable to install cirrus driver. X may not function correctly
virt-v2v: WARNING: /boot/grub/device.map references unknown device /dev/fd0. This entry must be manually fixed after conversion.
virt-v2v: kvm-rhel3.9-i386 configured without virtio drivers.


Actual results:
virt-v2v prints messages not so friendly:
virt-v2v: No capability in config matches os='linux' name='virtio' distro='rhel' major='3' minor='9'
virt-v2v: No capability in config matches os='linux' name='cirrus' distro='rhel' major='3' minor='9'


Expected results:
1.virt-v2v should print some messages more friendly.
2.We should document the special handle of virt-v2v for rhel3 guest.

 
Additional info:
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2012-12-14 06:50:37 UTC 
This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-11-18 11:26:55 UTC 
Virt-v2v needs to run on the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux release
to ensure it can correctly read and modify new guest filesystem
features.  A new version of virt-v2v is now available for RHEL 7.1.

Before RHEL 7.1 is released, follow the instructions here to
install unsupported preview packages on top of RHEL 7.0:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-May/msg00090.html

After RHEL 7.1 is released, virt-v2v will be available in
Technical Preview.

You can run virt-v2v in a single virtual machine.  Other
requirements are covered here:
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#resource-requirements

If you find a missing feature or bug in the new version of virt-v2v
please file a bug using the following link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux%207&component=libguestfs