Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 624925
Update V2V documentation in light of BZ 617635
Last modified: 2014-10-20 20:00:31 EDT
Request email from Matthew Booth: David, I'm just about to submit a build including a fix for: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617635 This unfortunately impacts the documentation in a few ways. Firstly Windows drivers are no longer shipped in the virt-v2v package: they are now provided by the virtio-win package. They are, however, referenced in the updated default configuration file. If the user attempts to convert a Windows guest, but doesn't have virtio-win installed, they will get an error message about missing files. Ideally, virtio-win would be a dependency of virt-v2v, but we can't do this because virtio-win is in RHEL 6 Supplementary. This means we need to highlight this requirement in the documentation. Secondly, the official virtio-win package doesn't include a driver for Windows XP. This means we don't support Windows XP. Lastly, an incompatible change is required to the default configuration file. This won't impact new installations, but anybody upgrading from a beta will be impacted. I suggest a release note for this. The most important change is obviously the first one. Will you be able to get this in? Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team GPG ID: D33C3490 GPG FPR: 3733 612D 2D05 5458 8A8A 1600 3441 EA19 D33C 3490
1) The virtio-win requirement has been listed under both "Preparing to convert a virtualized guest running Windows" and "Configuration changes for Windows virtualized guests", alongside the libguestfs-winsupport requirement. 2) The list of supported Windows platforms is now: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 3) Release notes for RHEL 6 are handled by a separate team. I am advised by them that this will be a technical note rather than a release note. BZ#617635 has good technical notes filled in and technical_note? set - this is all you need to do, it will be automatically included in the RHEL 6 technical notes. The updated guide is now up on doc stage: http://documentation-stage.bne.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-v2v-migration.html Brew build ID: Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Virtualization-6-web-en-US-0-67.el5 Changes committed to git.
Thanks, David. Looks good.
In light of comment#3 will move to verified. Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Virtualization-6-web-en-US-0-67.el5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you.