[Libguestfs] The latest v2v-server 0.8.5.1 blows up

[Matthew Booth]

On 12/14/2011 01:01 AM, Greg Scott wrote:
>> Suggesting either the NFS server or conversion server is dropping
>> offline intermittently.
>
> Well, no.  Twice today, the source server's console froze at 85 percent.
> I'll bet it's frozen again this time at 85 percent.  So this time while
> the P2V was in progress I set up pings to/from the conversion server and
> to/from the NFS server.  No packet loss, nothing ugly looking with round
> trip times.  Average RTT from both was round 0.2 ms, with max at about
> 1.3 ms.  So the network is good.
>
> The diagnostic log file on the conversion server doesn't give much for
> clues:
>
> [root at Fedora16-64P2V log]# more virt-p2v-server.1323814661.log
> virt-v2v: Error receiving data:
>
> [root at Fedora16-64P2V log]#
>
> I wonder if either the source server or NFS server has a bad block on a
> HDD?

If you go to source server (running P2V) you can switch to console 2 
(Ctrl-Alt-F2) to get a terminal. You could check dmesg on there. I think 
I may also have included strace on the image, so you could attach to the 
running P2V process with strace -p to get an idea what it's doing.

Matt
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Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS
Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team

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