Bug 1371875 - [RFE] configrable tmpdir for VM conversion using virt-v2v under oVirt GUI
Summary: [RFE] configrable tmpdir for VM conversion using virt-v2v under oVirt GUI
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: ovirt-engine
Classification: oVirt
Component: RFEs
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Assignee: Tomáš Golembiovský
QA Contact: Gil Klein
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Reported: 2016-08-31 10:22 UTC by Cam Mac
Modified: 2017-03-01 15:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-10-12 13:00:54 UTC
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Description Cam Mac 2016-08-31 10:22:02 UTC 
Description of problem:

When using GUI to import VM, the default tmpdir is /var/tmp. As VMs can be terabytes in size, /var/tmp will likely fill up during unpacking of VM and the process will fail. Could this be made configurable please.

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

4.0.2.7-1.el7.centos

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upload VM to import domain
2. Select 'import'
3. During conversion process, if the VM exceeds the size of /var/tmp, it will fail

Actual results:

VM import fails

Expected results:



Additional info:
Comment 1 Tomas Jelinek 2016-09-05 11:46:43 UTC 
Maybe it would be best to configure this on VDSM side since it can differ from host to host which is the correct tmp dir.
Comment 2 Michal Skrivanek 2016-10-12 13:00:54 UTC 
we're rather working on not requiring that much space and convert on the fly, tracking in https://trello.com/c/aNCEeMLV
Comment 3 Tomáš Golembiovský 2017-03-01 15:33:32 UTC 
The problem was addressed on virt-v2v level and the fix should be available in RHEL 7.4 time frame. Notably the following components in following versions have to be available:

qemu 2.8.0
libguestfs 1.36.1
libvirt 3.1.0
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