[Libguestfs] Fwd: virt-v2v-copy-to-local failed if dd does not support status=progress
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jun 12 12:17:14 UTC 2018
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 04:51:57AM -0700, zhujinhe wrote:
> If dd does not support status=progress, copy process will abort at the end. This is totally misguided.
> We can use -q as a workaround in this circumstance, but it is frightening to newbee like me. Maybe we should improve this.
>
> suspicion:
> ```
> if shell_command cmd <> 0 then
> error (f_"ssh copy command failed, see earlier errors");
> ```
>
> detail:
> ```
> shell > virt-v2v-copy-to-local -v -ic xen+ssh://myxen_server guest
> [ 0.0] Fetching the remote libvirt XML metadata ...
> [ 1.6] Parsing the remote libvirt XML metadata ...
> [ 1.6] Copying remote disk 1/2 to guest-disk1
> dd: invalid status flag: ‘progress’
> Try 'dd --help' for more information.
> 40960+0 records in
> 40960+0 records out
> 42949672960 bytes (43 GB) copied, 876.05 seconds, 49.0 MB/s
> virt-v2v-copy-to-local: error: ssh copy command failed, see earlier errors
>
> ```
This feature was added to the dd command in coreutils in Sept 2014,
nearly 4 years ago.
Which Linux distribution are you using?
Rich.
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