[Libguestfs] Man pages for virt-p2v-server?

Sat Oct 1 09:05:32 UTC 2011

What kind of error happened when booting?
If it is Blue Screen of Death "Stop 0x0000007B error",
following information might help you.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082

I did P2V successfully from my Laptop PC (Win XP) to KVM guest
using Clonezilla Live CD with the following step (I did not use virt-p2v).

1. Before P2V, apply above registry modification to Win XP.
2. Boot Latptop PC with Clonezilla Live CD and backup it to samba file server.
3. Create KVM guest and boot it with Clonezilla Live CD and restore from samba file server.

But I have no experience about Windows 2003 Server's P2V.

- Hisao

On 10/01/2011 04:11 PM, Greg Scott wrote:
> I might be fighting a losing P2V battle all around here.  I tried using
> ntbackup on the physical 2003 host to a network share, then restoring to
> another libvirt VM I provisioned.  After restoring, the VM won't boot.
> I think the issue is the driver for the system virtual disk.  The
> physical host uses a Compaq Smart Array 532 Controller with a Compaq
> Logical Volume SCSI disk device.  I built the VM using a virtio system
> drive.  I also tried IDE.  Neither worked.  So I think I'll enable the
> NIC on the physical host again and try to come up with a plan C.
>
> - Greg Scott
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: libguestfs-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:libguestfs-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Greg Scott
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:43 PM
> To: libguestfs at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] Man pages for virt-p2v-server?
>
> My use case might be atypical, or maybe bleeding edge.  The system I
> want to P2V is about 30 miles away and I am accessing it using a KVM
> over IP switch.  I have a Virt-P2V CD in its CD drive and I can boot
> from that CD by playing with the BIOS boot order using the KVM over IP.
> It's a little tricky but works.  And it has to be this way because I can
> only do this during off-hours.
>
> The physical host is a Windows 2003 server.  The conversion P2V server
> is a RHEL 14 guest VM running under Libvirt in a RHEL 6.1 host.  On the
> conversion server, I mounted an NFS mount from the RHEL 6.1 host onto
> /var/lib/libvirt/images, its (F14 VM) default libvirt storage pool.  The
> idea was, put the converted disk images there and then wrap a guest VM
> around them from the RHEL 6.1 host.
>
> The first time tonight, I uncommented the "libvirt" paragraph in
> virt-v2v.conf on the conversion server.  I booted the 2003 host from the
> p2V CD.  And waited for a cursor to finally show up over that KVM over
> IP.  I selected the "libvirt" profile, gave the converted VM 1 CPU and
> 1024 MB of RAM and clicked the "convert" button.  It immediately failed,
> complaining that "default" is not a valid storage pool.  My hunch is,
> this is probably because I set up an NFS mount on top of it.
>
> So I went into virt-manager on my Fedora 14 VM and set up another
> storage pool named "MigrateVM" and pointed it to
> /var/lib/libvirt/images/MigrateVM.  Then I modified virt-v2v.conf and
> copied and pasted the "libvirt" paragraph.  I modified it to look like
> below:
>
>    <profile name="mmmh-migrate">
>      <method>libvirt</method>
>      <storage>MigrateVM</storage>
>      <network type="default">
>        <network type="network" name="default"/>
>      </network>
>    </profile>
>
> Then I rebooted the 2003 host from the virt-p2v CD.  I logged in to the
> conversion server, selected the profile named "mmmh-migrate", 1024 MB of
> RAM and 1 CPU. When I clicked "convert", see below:
>
> Virt-p2v has shutdown unexpectedly.  You may:
>
> * Try running it again
> * Debug virt-p2v
> * Power the machine off
>
> I suppose a definition of insanity is trying the same thing again and
> expecting different results - but I tried again anyway and got the same
> results.  This time I chose debug and it mentioned a saved file named
> virt-p2v.log.  So I copied it and am pasting its contents below.
>
> (eval): line 75
>     Gtk-WARNING **:Could not find the icon 'gtk-dialog-warning'. The
> 'hicolor' theme
> was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.
> You can get a copy from:
> 	http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases
> /dev/cciss!c0d0: No such file or directory
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/converter.rb:138
> :in `Integer': invalid value for Integer: ""
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/converter.rb:138
> :in `disk'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/converter.rb:72:
> in `convert'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/converter.rb:178
> :in `call'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/converter.rb:178
> :in `iterate'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/converter.rb:74:
> in `convert'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/converter.rb:174
> :in `call'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/converter.rb:174
> :in `iterate'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/connection.rb:14
> 3:in `call'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/connection.rb:14
> 3:in `metadata'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/gtk-queue.rb:44:
> in `call'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/gtk-queue.rb:44:
> in `main_with_queue'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/gtk-queue.rb:43:
> in `each'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/gtk-queue.rb:43:
> in `main_with_queue'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/gtk-queue.rb:42:
> in `synchronize'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/gtk-queue.rb:42:
> in `main_with_queue'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/gtk-queue.rb:50:
> in `call'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/gtk-queue.rb:50:
> in `main'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/gtk-queue.rb:50:
> in `main_with_queue'
> 	 from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/lib/virt-p2v/ui/main.rb:49:in
> `main_loop'
> 	 from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/virt-p2v-0.8.3/bin/virt-p2v:56
> 	 from /usr/bin/virt-p2v:19:in `load'
> 	 from /usr/bin/virt-p2v:19
>
> The obvious question - why not forget about NFS and just carve out
> "local" storage on an F14 VM and run the conversion that way?  And then
> copy the converted disk images where they need to go on the RHEL host.
> I can do that if necessary, but sheesh, what a waste.  That 2003 server
> uses about 80 GB and I'd like to give the converted VM about 100 GB or
> so, so it has plenty of room.  But if this turns out to be the answer, I
> guess I may as well just do the migration by building a target 2003 VM
> and using ntbackup to backup the physical and restore to the virtual.
>
> - Greg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: libguestfs-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:libguestfs-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Greg Scott
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:36 AM
> To: libguestfs at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] Man pages for virt-p2v-server?
>
>> In fact, *everything* in the default config file is commented out now.
>
> I am a total dork!  For anyone else reading this, learn from my
> oversight.
>
> I just now learned this.  In XML,"<!--" (without the quotes) starts a
> comment block.  The comment block ends with a line that looks
> like,"-->", again without the quotes.  There are also apparently other
> ways to do comments too.  And sure enough, all the profile paragraphs in
> virt-v2v.conf are bracketed with these start and end comment strings.
>
> I'll get another P2V window starting about 7 hours from now and I'll
> post the results here.
>
> - Greg
>
>
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