[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Converter: Don't die if we can't do guest-specific conversion

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu May 6 10:43:45 UTC 2010


On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 08:41:26PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> We currently die with an error message if we can't find a Converter for a
> specific guest operating system. However, virt-v2v can still usefully transfer
> storage and metadata.
> 
> This change turns the error into a (lengthy) warning, and continues with
> metadata conversion if guest conversion isn't possible.

This is sensible.  There's a lot you can do manually with
an unknown OS and a copy of virt-rescue.  ACK.

Rich.

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