[Libguestfs] [ovirt-users] OVA import of FC21 VM hangs during virt-v2v conversion?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 09:57:47AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, November 17, 2016 4:11 am, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 08:07:15PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> I found the disk image for the running VM, created a symlink, and then
> >> ran
> >> the command above.  It took a while:
> >>
> >> # time LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct guestfish --ro -a fc21-64.qcow2 -i
> >> selinux-relabel /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts /
> >> force:true
> >>
> >> real	114m17.757s
> >> user	114m16.476s
> >> sys	0m6.042s
> >
> > That certainly demonstrates the bug.  I'm unclear why it would be
> > happening, but perhaps you can run the following commands and send me
> > the results:
> >
> > LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct guestfish --ro -a fc21-64.qcow2 -i find / >
> > files
> >
> > LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct virt-cat -a fc21-64.qcow2
> > /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts / > file_contexts
> 
> See attached..  There are 184,431 entries in the file list.
> 
> > rpm -qf /usr/sbin/setfiles > setfiles.version
> 
> Did you want this on the host or in the guest?  On the host I get:
> policycoreutils-2.2.5-20.el7.x86_64

This is the same version I have.

> There's really nothing private in the list of files on this machine.  It's
> an openafs build slave.  :)

Indeed there's a large number of .ccache files (over 50000).

However even recreating this directory structure locally and using the
same version of setfiles, I wasn't able to reproduce the problem.
Runs of setfiles never took more than about 15 seconds.

So, I don't know ..

Rich.

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