[Libguestfs] Fwd: virt-v2v creating image that does not install guest agent on first boot

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 08:46:58PM +0800, Ming Xie wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
>        Sorry, I missed the email, I found out that the ova OS used by the
> customer is win11 uefi, so I tried to reproduce the error today using
> win11-uefi guest
> 
> Steps:
> 1. Convert win10-efi with UTC-8 timezone, win11-non-efi with UTC-8 timezone,
> win11-efi with UTC-8 timezone, win11-efi with UTC+8 timezone, win2022-efi with
> UTC-8 timezone from VMware by v2v, then check the installation status after
> finishing conversion
> 
> 
> Summary the test result as below:
> 
>                                             qemu-ga
> 
>   Win10-efi-UTC-8              PASS
>   Win11-non-efi UTC-8       PASS
>   Win11-efi-UTC-8              FAIL(can't find qemu-ga log in c:\)
>   Win11-efi-UTC+8             FAIL(can't find qemu-ga log in c:\)
>   Win2022-efi-UTC-8          PASS

Thanks for testing.  The symptoms look the same as Lee reported.

You're running virt-v2v from RHEL 9?  If so I will prepare a scratch
RHEL 9 package with the patches which we think might fix this, for
testing.

Rich.

>   Based on the above results, I think this problem is only caused by win11-efi
> and has nothing to do with the time zone "UTC-8"
> 
> The following are existing bugs about qemu-ga:
> 
> Bug 1820144 - cannot install qemu-ga to some guests even if scheduled qemu-ga
> installation task exist
> Bug 2114809 - Can't install qemu-ga because of network address error after
> converting MD-RAID1 win11 host by virt-p2v
> Bug 1820152 - Fail to execute installation-qemu-ga.msi for win2012r2 and
> win8.1-i386 guests
> 
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> Ming Xie
> 
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 6:40 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 07:47:52PM +0200, Lee Garrett wrote:
>     > On 21.09.23 19:43, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>     > >So this is probably another instance or variation of the timezone
>     > >formatting problem (of schtasks).  Which version of virt-v2v is this?
>     > >I want to check that you have a version with all the latest patches in
>     > >this area.
>     >
>     > It's 2.2.0-1 from Debian (12) bookworm. I've verified that it
>     > doesn't have any distro-specific patches.
>     >
>     > (https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/virt-v2v/-/tree/debian/master/
>     debian
>     > would have a patches/series file in this case)
> 
>     The timezone fixes are:
> 
>     commit 597d177567234c3a539098c423649781424eeb6f
>     Author: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
>     Date:   Tue Mar 8 15:30:51 2022 +0100
> 
>         convert_windows: rewrite "configure_qemu_ga" script purely in
>     PowerShell
> 
>     commit d9dc6c42ae64ba92993dbd9477f003ba73fcfa2f
>     Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
>     Date:   Fri Nov 12 08:47:55 2021 +0000
> 
>         convert/convert_windows.ml: Handle date formats with dots instead of /
> 
>     They are all included in >= 2.0
> 
>     I wonder if 597d177567 has a subtle flaw, or if we introduced a bug
>     somewhere when refactoring this code later.
> 
>     Lee: Do you have a theory about exactly what is wrong with the
>     schtasks date?  Like what was it supposed to be, assuming it was 120
>     seconds in the future from boot time, versus what it was set to:
> 
>     > Firstboot-qemu-ga                        9/21/2023 4:04:00 PM   Ready
> 
>     Could a date or time field have not been swapped or been corrupted
>     in some predictable way?
> 
>     The code we run is here:
> 
>     https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs-common/blob/
>     e70d89a58dae068be2e19c7c21558707261af96a/mlcustomize/inject_virtio_win.ml#
>     L571
> 
>     Ming: this could be a bug affecting PST (UTC-8) guests, perhaps
>     somehow related to having a single digit month field?
> 
>     Rich.
> 
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