Bug 454493 - virt-p2v does not work with Windows
Summary: virt-p2v does not work with Windows
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: virt-p2v
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-08 19:20 UTC by Joseph Scalia
Modified: 2011-08-30 09:59 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-08-30 09:59:16 UTC
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Description Joseph Scalia 2008-07-08 19:20:05 UTC
Description of problem:
P2V does not work with a Windows guest
  
Actual results:
N/A

Expected results:
To be able to boot an iso or otherwise and migrate the Windows bare metal
instance over to Red Hat Virtualization.  Windows 2003 onto Xen would be ideal
for a initial availability.

V2P function could follow later.  This is important for support from 3rd party ISVs

Additional info:

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-01-12 09:43:33 UTC
Here's the message that we get.  Seems like the ntfs driver is
simply missing from the Live CD:

shwithstatus: mount -o ro '/dev/sda1' /mnt/root
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
partition detection: /dev/sda1 is Unknown

Comment 2 Alan Pevec 2009-01-12 09:58:01 UTC
NTFS is supported in Fedora using fuse and ntfs-3g, add them to %packages for this LiveCD

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-01-12 10:15:22 UTC
I finally got my MSDN subscription today so at least I can test this now.

Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-01-13 09:55:28 UTC
JMH points me at the following tool which can
do P2V for Windows machines:

http://ping.windowsdream.com/

Comment 5 Orion Poplawski 2009-11-04 22:33:50 UTC
Is this still a problem?

Comment 6 Orion Poplawski 2009-11-04 22:43:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> JMH points me at the following tool which can
> do P2V for Windows machines:
> 
> http://ping.windowsdream.com/  

Any docs on how to use ping to do this?

Comment 7 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-11-04 23:18:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Is this still a problem?  

Very much so, yes.  Rewrite in progress.

Comment 11 shmuel siegel 2009-11-24 23:56:28 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> > Is this still a problem?  
> 
> Very much so, yes.  Rewrite in progress.  
Any specs? Will it handle WinXP?
Any dates (even wild speculation)?

Comment 12 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-08-30 09:59:16 UTC
Please use the new virt-p2v/virt-v2v which supports Windows.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v/


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