Bug 672824 - virt-v2v does not work with guests that have the Windows Recovery Console installed
Summary: virt-v2v does not work with guests that have the Windows Recovery Console ins...
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: virt-v2v
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthew Booth
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Depends On: 672825 672827 672831 732637
Blocks: 673066
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-01-26 14:43 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2018-11-14 14:48 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
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: 672825 672827 673066 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2014-12-15 12:11:15 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2011-01-26 14:43:25 UTC 
Description of problem:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2011-January/thread.html#00058

If a Windows <= 2003 guest has the Windows Recovery Console
installed, then the perl inspection code detects this as an
extra instance of Windows.  Since virt-v2v does not work with
multiboot operating systems, the conversion fails with the
error:

 virt-v2v: multiboot operating systems are not supported by virt-v2v

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

0.7.1(?)

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Windows Recovery Console to the guest hard disk.
2. Try virt-v2v conversion.
3.
  
Actual results:

virt-v2v/libguestfs thinks the guest is multiboot and fails.

Expected results:

virt-v2v should ignore the Recovery Console partition and
convert only the main partition.  It should probably warn that
the Recovery Console has not been converted and must be
reinstalled.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Marius Pana 2011-02-27 13:58:11 UTC 
Any updates or workarounds for this issue?
Comment 2 Matthew Booth 2011-02-28 11:30:00 UTC 
Unfortunately not yet.
Comment 8 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-12-15 12:11:15 UTC 
This is now fixed in the latest version, so closing.  Try the
version in RHEL 7.1 which works fine with WRC.
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