[Libguestfs] [PATCH] v2v: Support loading virtio-win drivers from virtio-win.iso (RHBZ#1234351).

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jun 23 08:04:06 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 09:18:01AM +0300, Shahar Havivi wrote:
> On 22.06.15 15:33, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > This makes several changes to the handling of virtio-win drivers:
> > 
> > The VIRTIO_WIN_DIR environment variable has been renamed
> > VIRTIO_WIN (but you can still use the old name).
> > 
> > You can point the VIRTIO_WIN either at a RHEL virtio-win directory
> > (ie. /usr/share/virtio-win), OR at a loopback-mounted virtio-win ISO,
> > OR at the virtio-win.iso file itself.  In the latter case, libguestfs
> > is used to open the ISO file and read drivers from it.
> > 
> > The code is more flexible about the pathnames of drivers, because the
> > paths in the ISO are completely different from the paths in RHEL
> > /usr/share/virtio-win.
> Hi,
> I try to verify by setting VIRTIO_WIN to the iso and the mounted Fedora
> drivers path - in both cases I got an error that the drivers are not found.

What is the output with 'virt-v2v -v -x ...' ?

> It did work with the RHEL drivers that was in /usr/local/share/virtio-win
> as well as setting it to different location and setting the VIRTIO_WIN to
> the new location.

Rich.

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