[Libguestfs] few things I found about virt-p2v

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 02:56:10AM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I spent the last few hours playing with virt-p2v, and here are few things
> that I found, please tell me on which to submit a bug report:
> 
>    1. I created a boot image (without any parameters) and tested it using
>    virt-manager. With QXL driver, when it loads the Xorg, it shows .. a blank
>    screen (I tried it tens of times). With VirtIO it works.

Unclear, you'd probably need to look at the logs from the virtual
machine to see what's going on.

>    2. RHV-Upload -  I see that the functionality is there, but there is a
>    missing field for password. Since I don't have oVirt installed at the
>    moment, does it asks for the password from the user? could someone please
>    add a box for this if the user chooses RHV-Upload?

rhv-upload from p2v is currently known to be broken:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1603149

It may work using the kernel command line, but it's not really been
tested.

>    3. There network to connect to - I think GUI wise, that it's not
>    understandable that you need to click the word "default" and change the
>    name manually. Perhaps change the name from "default" to something like
>    "Type Network Name"?

Where exactly is this in the UI?

>    4. Looks like there is no way to type a pool name to export to (if I
>    select libvirt) or am I missing something? (let's say I have a pool called
>    NAS-10G). In the -os field I'm trying to put the NAS-10G (as the virt-v2v
>    man page suggests), but this seems not work.

Put the pool name into the storage (-os) field.

>    5. Is there a way to access the ncurses mode? (for some really old
>    machines who don't respect VESA).

No, but you can run virt-p2v automatically from the kernel command
line.  See the manual for an explanation.  There is no text UI mode,
nor is it ever planned.

Rich.

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