[Libguestfs] p2v with cciss failure

[Mike Brady]

> On 03/06/2012 07:40 PM, Mike Brady wrote:
> I have continued on with my attempts to get p2v working will little
> success.
>
> I have changed my server to Fedora 16 and finally got an XP with a
> single SATA disk (sda) to work. I think that this means that the current
> virt-p2v.iso just doesn't work with the packages that are available on
> Centos 6 at the moment.
>
> However, the machines that I currently need to actually migrate all have
> cciss controllers of some sort in them. For testing I have two very
> different servers with different controllers in them that both use the
> cciss driver that fail to complete the transfer of the image.
>
> Debug output is listed below, but doesn't give me any clues as to what
> to look at next.
>
>
> Mar 1 11:33:12 c2cl00 virt-v2v[6721]: Read 4194304 bytes
> Mar 1 11:33:12 c2cl00 virt-v2v[6721]: Read 4194304 bytes
> Mar 1 11:33:12 c2cl00 virt-v2v[6721]: Read 65536 bytes
> Mar 1 11:33:14 c2cl00 virt-v2v[6721]: Sent: ERROR Error receiving data:
> Mar 1 11:33:14 c2cl00 virt-v2v[6721]: FATAL: Error receiving data:
> Mar 1 11:33:14 c2cl00 virt-v2v[6721]: WARNING: Error messages were
> written to /var/log/virt-p2v-server.1330551856.log.
> Mar 1 11:33:14 c2cl00 virt-v2v[6721]: p2v-server exited.
> Mar 1 11:33:14 c2cl00 virt-v2v[6721]: Automatically cleaning up volume
> win2008-cciss_c0d0 from pool {pool}.
>
> The file /var/log/virt-p2v-server.1330551856.log contains
> -----Start
> virt-v2v: Error receiving data:
>
> -----End
>
> I don't think this error has anything to do with the cciss  
> controller, as I've had it from a number of sources now. There  
> appears to be some  kind of race in the code which sends disk data.  
> I'm currently working on trying to track it down.
>
> Matt
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> Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS
> Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team
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Matthew

Apologies, but some how I managed to miss your original reply.

Let me now if there is something I can do to help with tracking this  
down.  I have a couple of machines here that reliably fail that I can  
test on.

Thanks

Mike