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

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Thu, November 17, 2016 10:51 am, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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).

But that shouldn't be an issue, right?  In the scheme of things, 50,000
files isn't a lot.

> 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 ..

Would you like a copy of the VMDK?  If so I can figure out how to make it
available to you (privately).

> Rich.

-derek

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