Bug 1031076 - RFE virt-v2v migrates mac address of VMWARE VM and requires manual change in RHEV
Summary: RFE virt-v2v migrates mac address of VMWARE VM and requires manual change in ...
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: virt-v2v
Version: 6.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Matthew Booth
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-15 14:55 UTC by Michael Everette
Modified: 2018-12-03 20:41 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-11-18 11:15:48 UTC
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Description Michael Everette 2013-11-15 14:55:35 UTC
Customer is using virt-v2v to convert RHEL machines from VMWare environment to RHEV.

They noticed that it also migrates/converts the mac-adress that belongs to a VMWare reserved range, and believe that there should be at least an option NOT to use the old mac from VMware or wherever you are migrating from and get a new one in RHEV.

I was told this is as designed and that the mac address being brought across is desirable. Customer however disagrees and has spoken to management about a need for some way to configure this.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-11-18 11:15:48 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


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