612093 – virt-convert: Find incorrect vmdk file via reading vmx

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Bug 612093 - virt-convert: Find incorrect vmdk file via reading vmx

Summary: virt-convert: Find incorrect vmdk file via reading vmx

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	python-virtinst
Sub Component:
Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	low
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	Cole Robinson
QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs
Docs Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2010-07-07 10:02 UTC by zhanghaiyan
Modified:	2011-12-06 16:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	No description necessary
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-12-06 16:15:39 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments	(Terms of Use)
vmdk file (482 bytes, text/plain) 2011-07-15 03:07 UTC, zhe peng	no flags	Details
vmx file (2.74 KB, text/plain) 2011-07-15 03:11 UTC, zhe peng	no flags	Details
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2011:1643	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	python-virtinst bug fix and enhancement update	2011-12-06 00:50:36 UTC

Description zhanghaiyan 2010-07-07 10:02:37 UTC

Description of problem:
ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386-flat.vmdk is the extender of ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386.vmdk, but virt-convert didn't read this

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
- python-virtinst-0.500.3-5.el6.noarch
- qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.90.el6.x86_64
- qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.90.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. [root@dhcp-66-70-184 ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386]# ll -h
total 11G
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  10G Jun 28 21:34 ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386-flat.vmdk
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  456 Jun 24 19:54 ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386.vmdk
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2.8K Jul  7 12:59 ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386.vmx
2. # cat ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386.vmx 
......
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386.vmdk"
scsi0:0.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"
.........
3. # cat ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386.vmdk 
...........
# Extent description
RW 20971520 VMFS "ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386-flat.vmdk"
.........
4. # virt-convert -i vmx -o virt-image  ESX35-RHEL3U9-i386/ virt/

  
Actual results:
ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386.vmdk, the not true disk file, is converted to image file. Seems virt-convert doesn't read the direction in .vmdk file.

Expected results:
ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386-flat.vmdk, the true disk file, should be converted to image file. virt-convert should not only read .vmx file, but also read .vmdk file. According to step2, step3, the direction is clear: 
ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386.vmx -> ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386.vmdk -> ESX4-RHEL3U9-i386-flat.vmdk

Additional info:

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-07-15 14:54:48 UTC

This issue has been proposed when we are only considering blocker
issues in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. It has
been denied for the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

** If you would still like this issue considered for the current
release, ask your support representative to file as a blocker on
your behalf. Otherwise ask that it be considered for the next
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. **

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2010-08-06 18:23:33 UTC

virt-convert is kind of influx since it's basically deprecated by virt-v2v, so this isn't a priority for 6.0.

Comment 5 Suzanne Logcher 2011-03-28 21:10:21 UTC

Since RHEL 6.1 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains 
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as an 
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to 
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the 
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 6 Cole Robinson 2011-04-07 15:48:57 UTC

Missed the boat (and low priority), deferring to 6.2

Comment 7 Cole Robinson 2011-04-07 16:20:57 UTC

Can someone provide the full test files that to reproduce this issue? The disk image doesn't need to be posted, just the vmx descriptor files.

Comment 8 zhanghaiyan 2011-04-08 02:34:00 UTC

http://fileshare.englab.nay.redhat.com/pub/section1/v2v/esx4.0/ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b/
# cat ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b.vmx
.encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
nvram = "ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b.nvram"
deploymentPlatform = "windows"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
unity.customColor = "|23C0C0C0"
tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "default"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "soft"

displayName = "esx4.0-rhel4.8-i386"
extendedConfigFile = "ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b.vmxf"
floppy0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.sharedBus = "none"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "512"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b.vmdk"
scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.clientDevice = "TRUE"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide1:0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.clientDevice = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.networkName = "VM Network"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
guestOSAltName = "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (32-bit)"
guestOS = "rhel4"
uuid.location = "56 4d 94 07 db 8e 72 ac-bd dd 1d 03 ec 93 bc e3"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 94 07 db 8e 72 ac-bd dd 1d 03 ec 93 bc e3"
vc.uuid = "52 64 d7 f7 aa a7 d2 cd-33 ed 78 96 41 e8 c2 76"

numvcpus = "2"
floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:93:bc:e3"
cleanShutdown = "FALSE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/243b31a4-14eedb7f/ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b/ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b-a0f223ea.vswp"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "4194304"
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "-325862173"
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"
hostCPUID.0 = "0000000d756e65476c65746e49656e69"
guestCPUID.0 = "0000000d756e65476c65746e49656e69"
userCPUID.0 = "0000000d756e65476c65746e49656e69"
hostCPUID.1 = "0001067a000408000408e3fdbfebfbff"
guestCPUID.1 = "0001067a00010800800822010febfbff"
userCPUID.1 = "0001067a00040800000822010febfbff"
hostCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100800"
guestCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100800"
userCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100800"
evcCompatibilityMode = "FALSE"

bios.forceSetupOnce = "FALSE"

Comment 10 Cole Robinson 2011-07-14 22:52:18 UTC

Can you also post the vmdk descriptor file as well in it's entirety? I don't have permissions to access it at that link, though I can read the vmx file.

Also, even if we read that file, virt-convert isn't going to be able to do much with it, since qemu-img can't convert vmfs style vmdk files.

Comment 11 zhe peng 2011-07-15 03:07:47 UTC

Created attachment 513309 [details]
vmdk file

Comment 12 zhe peng 2011-07-15 03:11:06 UTC

Created attachment 513310 [details]
vmx file

Comment 13 zhe peng 2011-07-15 03:14:58 UTC

I can reproduce this bug with:
- python-virtinst-0.500.3-5.el6.noarch
- qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.134.el6.x86_64
- qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.134.el6.x86_64
I can reproduce this bug with:
- python-virtinst-0.500.3-5.el6.noarch
- qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.134.el6.x86_64
- qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.134.el6.x86_64

# ll ESX/
total 3414348
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6442450944 Jul 14 22:43 ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b-flat.vmdk
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root        482 Jul 14 22:44 ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b.vmdk
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root       2805 Jul 14 22:44 ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b.vmx
# virt-convert -i vmx -o virt-image ESX/ virt/ --debug
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:06:52 DEBUG    Launched with command line:
/usr/bin/virt-convert -i vmx -o virt-image ESX/ virt/ --debug
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:06:52 DEBUG    Creating directory virt/
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:06:52 DEBUG    input_file: ESX/ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b.vmx
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:06:52 DEBUG    input_dir: ESX/
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:06:52 DEBUG    output_file: virt/esx4.0-rhel4.8-i386.virt-image.xml
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:06:52 DEBUG    output_dir: ESX/
Generating output in 'virt-image' format to virt//
Converting disk 'ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b.vmdk' to type raw...
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:06:52 DEBUG    Running command: qemu-img convert -O raw /tmp/ESX/ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b.vmdk /tmp/virt/ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b.raw
Done.
# ll virt/
total 4
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 509 Jul 14 23:06 esx4.0-rhel4.8-i386.virt-image.xml
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   0 Jul 14 23:06 ESX4.0-rhel4u8-32b.raw

Comment 14 Cole Robinson 2011-07-18 21:27:37 UTC

Upstream now:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=python-virtinst.git;a=commit;h=8f1535425121c412aefe87fee732d3d7b50b9f17

Comment 15 Cole Robinson 2011-07-28 15:34:34 UTC

Fixed in python-virtinst-0.600.0-1.el6

Comment 17 Huming Jiang 2011-08-02 10:53:21 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:
1.prepare vmx and vmdk file
download 3 files from link below:
http://fileshare.englab.nay.redhat.com/pub/section3/libvirtauto/vmware/
2. # ls -l ESX/
total 10485772
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 10737418240 Apr  2 14:02 ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.vmdk
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root         282 Apr  2 14:02 ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0.vmdk
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root        2154 Apr  2 14:02 ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0.vmx
3.# virt-convert -i vmx -o virt-image ESX/ virt/ --debug
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:52:50 DEBUG    Creating directory virt/
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:52:50 DEBUG    input_file: ESX/ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0.vmx
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:52:50 DEBUG    input_dir: ESX/
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:52:50 DEBUG    output_file: virt/ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1.virt-image.xml
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:52:50 DEBUG    output_dir: virt/
Generating output in 'virt-image' format to virt//
Converting disk 'ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.vmdk' to type raw...
Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:52:50 DEBUG    Running command: qemu-img convert -O raw /home/ESX/ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.vmdk /home/virt/ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.raw
...
done
4. # ls -l virt/
total 4897800
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root         544 Aug  2 18:44 ESX3.5-RHEL6-64b-20100909.1.virt-image.xml
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 10737418240 Aug  2 18:43 ESX3.5-RHEL6-x64-20100807.0-flat.raw

Comment 18 Cole Robinson 2011-11-07 16:50:26 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
No description necessary

Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 16:15:39 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

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