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NAME
virt-v2v-release-notes - virt-v2v release notes for 2.0
DESCRIPTION
These are the release notes for virt-v2v 2.0. This describes the major changes since 1.42.
No release notes were published for 1.44, so that release is covered here.
Virt-v2v 2.0.0 was released on 14 March 2022.
Security
There were no security-related bugs found in this release.
New features
Virt-v2v has been modularised allowing external programs to examine the state of the conversion and
inject their own copying step. Further enhancements will be made to this new architecture in forthcoming
releases.
The command line is almost identical apart from some debugging features that were removed (see below).
The only significant difference is that the output format (-of) now has to be specified if it is
different from the input format, whereas previous versions of virt-v2v would use the same output format
as input format automatically.
A lot of time was spent improving the performance of virt-v2v in common cases.
Implement conversion of ALT Linux guests (Mikhail Gordeev).
Many bug fixes and performance enhancements were made to oVirt imageio output (Nir Soffer).
There is a new virt-v2v-in-place(1) tool which replaces the existing virt-v2v --in-place option.
Virt-v2v can now convert guests which use LUKS encrypted logical volumes (Laszlo Ersek).
Option -oo rhv-direct has been replaced by -oo rhv-proxy, and direct mode (which is much faster) is now
the default when writing to oVirt, with proxy mode available for restricted network configurations
(thanks: Nir Soffer).
The following command line options were removed: --print-estimate, --debug-overlays, --no-copy.
Virt-v2v no longer installs the RHEV-APT tool in Windows guests. This tool was deprecated and then
removed in oVirt 4.3.
Deprecated tool virt-v2v-copy-to-local has been removed. This was deprecated in November 2018.
Other fixes
Remove reference to prl_strg driver in Windows guests to avoid BSOD (Denis Plotnikov).
Fix conversions of UEFI Linux guests that don't provide their own fallback bootloader (Denis Plotnikov).
Remove use of nbdkit-readahead-filter(1). This filter uses a naive strategy and it had several negative
effects on conversions.
Remove prompts for interactive passwords. Normally you should try to use the -ip and/or -op options to
supply passwords.
For Windows guests, we insert a schtasks command. However the parameters of this command are timezone
dependent and so it failed in non-European timezones. (Thanks: Dinesh Herath, Tomáš Golembiovský, Bryan
Kinney, Mark Zealey, Xiaodai Wang)
Virt-v2v will reauthenticate with vCenter servers periodically when copying guests over HTTPS which stops
large guests and/or slow copies taking longer than about 30 minutes from failing.
Virt-v2v now sets libguestfs SMP to match number of physical host CPUs, which helps performance of
certain conversion steps.
Virt-v2v output to oVirt now attempts to set the machine and firmware type correctly. Note an exact
mapping is not always possible and oVirt may ignore our recommendations (incorrectly) sometimes.
Virt-v2v now generates a virtio-vsock device for guests which support it (Valeriy Vdovin).
All guests now need at least 100 MB of free space for conversion to succeed (Ming Xie).
Standard VGA instead of QXL is now used as the video type for converted guests (Laszlo Ersek).
Older guests (eg RHEL 6) will use the virtio-transitional model after conversion. This feature and the
machine type are now usually determined from the libosinfo database, falling back to hard-coded values if
libosinfo is not available (Laszlo Ersek).
When virt-v2v prints messages to a pipe or file it no longer wraps them, making parsing simpler. You can
enable wrapping in this mode using --wrap (Laszlo Ersek).
Windows guest firstboot scripts installed by virt-v2v now run in the right order, making network
configuration happen earlier (Laszlo Ersek).
Build changes
libguestfs ≥ 1.44 is now required.
nbdcopy(1) and OCaml NBD bindings, both from libnbd ≥ 1.10, are now required.
nbdkit ≥ 1.22 is now required (Nir Soffer).
pcre2 (instead of pcre) is now required.
gnulib is no longer bundled or used by virt-v2v.
OCaml ≥ 4.04 is now required. OCaml 4.13 support has been added in this release.
OpenSSH scp ≥ 8.8 is now required. Earlier versions will fail because the command line syntax was
changed incompatibly.
Internals
Weblate instead of Zanata is now used for translations (Pino Toscano).
Bugs fixed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2051394
Missing error message of 'insufficient free space in the conversion server temporary directory'
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2044922
nbdinfo output to stdout instead of stderr during virt-v2v conversion
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2044911
virt-p2v conversion hangs with RHEL9 virt-v2v
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2043333
'model='virtio-transitional' is wrongly added when converting windows guest to local by rhel9 v2v
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2041886
virt-v2v hangs for several minutes when using -ic vpx://... -it vddk with incorrect IP address
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2041852
Improve the unclear assertion failure at input_xen_ssh.ml
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2041850
Can not specify '-oo json-disks-pattern' in '-o json' mode
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2039597
Failed to import VM when selecting OVA as a source on RHV webadmin
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2039255
Conversion performance is not good when convert guest by modular virt-v2v
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2034240
calling "get_disk_allocated" in "create_ovf" breaks the rhv-upload output plugin
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2033096
RFE: Remove -oo rhv-direct and add -oo rhv-proxy option
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2032324
nbdcopy command failed when using v2v to convert guest from ESXi6.5 via vddk > 6.5 + rhv-upload to
rhv4.4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2032112
Add virt-v2v and libvirt version to the beginning of v2v debug log
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2027673
V2V can't convert guest from VMware via vmx+ssh when openssh version is 8.7p1-5
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2027598
There is no guest listed in export domain if use v2v to convert guest to rhv via -o rhv
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1994984
virt-v2v can't convert bitblocker windows guest with libguestfs error: /dev/mapper/cryptsda: No such
file or directory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1977681
The usage description of '-oo rhv-disk-uuid=UUID' in man virt-v2v should be updated
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1976607
[RFE] Drop QXL for guests on CentOS 9 clusters
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1976024
[RFE][v2v] [upload/download disk/CBT] Failed to attach disk to the VM - disk is OK but image transfer
still holds a lock on the disk
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1972125
Update privileges for Non-admin vmware role when ESXi host has enabled host encryption mode in
virt-v2v-input-vmware man page
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1967941
virt-v2v can't install qemu-guest-agent for rhel9 guest during conversion
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1964324
assertion failed at parse_ova.ml when ova directory ends with '/'
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1961107
Change video type from qxl to vga after v2v conversion
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1960087
v2v import from vCenter fails when using interactive password because cookie-script tries to be
interactive
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1949147
Should improve the minimum free space for windows guest in v2v man page and better to improve v2v
error message about no space left for windows guest
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1945549
Delete or improve the warning info about rhev-apt during v2v converting windows guest on rhel9
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1942325
Virt-v2v should add 'model='virtio-transitional' to RHEL <=6 guest virtio devices during conversion
if target is rhel9 system
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1926102
"virt-v2v: warning: there is no QXL driver for this version of Windows" still shows, even though we
copied qxldod driver to the guest
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1917760
VMware tools not getting uninstalled as part of IMS
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1903960
Should hidden "virt-v2v: warning: /usr/share/virt-tools/pnp_wait.exe is missing.."during conversion
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1901489
VDDK 6.7 repeatedly reconnects with nbdkit: vddk[1]: debug: NBD_ClientOpen: attempting to create
connection to vpxa-nfc:// followed by virt-v2v failure
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1895323
After virt-v2v, qemu-ga does not run at Windows firstboot if the timezone is not M/d/yyyy format
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1872100
Should correct info about 'UEFI on OpenStack' in virt-v2v-support man page
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1872094
Virt-v2v should convert UEFI guest to openstack via openstack option successfully
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1871754
RFE: Should clarify which file is correct authentication file for openstack/glance conversion in
virt-v2v-output-openstack man page
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1868690
Ceph block device will be destroyed if v2v convert guest to ceph block device and guest disk size is
greater than ceph block device
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1858775
RFE: virt-v2v should check the ip info when specify guest's ip
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1858765
V2V option --keys-from-stdin gives error: getline: Inappropriate ioctl for device
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1854275
document that vmx+ssh "-ip" auth doesn't cover ssh / scp shell commands
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1842440
nbdkit cannot read the password interactively when started from virt-v2v
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1841096
Option --bandwidth and --bandwidth-file isn't working as expected during v2v conversion
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1839917
There is no info "Opening the source -i libvirt -ic vpx://..." shown if any IP is wrong in vpx:// URL
during v2v conversion
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1838425
V2V doesn't ask password if there is no option about password file in v2v command line
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1837453
[RFE]Remove cache=none for guest after v2v converting to libvirt
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1837328
Virt-v2v cannot convert guest from ESXI7.0 server without vddk
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1832805
v2v conversion will be failed because of memory allocation failure if convert guest from ESXi6.0 or
ESXi6.5 via vddk, or use vddk6.5 to convert guest from VMware
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1789279
virt-v2v should give more clear error info when use some special invalid uuids for disks
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1788823
Virt-v2v firstboot scripts should run in order, with v2v network configuration happening first
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1764569
V2V conversion fails when a filesystem has no free inodes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1658126
Virt-v2v can't convert guest using LUKS-on-LV
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1637857
q35 switch caused: error: unsupported configuration: IDE controllers are unsupported for this QEMU
binary or machine type
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1581428
virt-v2v use Q35 as default machine-type
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1534644
New way of parsing OVF from OVA that was created by VMware fails.
SEE ALSO
virt-v2v(1), virt-v2v-release-notes-1.42(1), guestfs-release-notes-1.40(1).
AUTHORS
Authors of virt-v2v 2.0:
Denis Plotnikov
Kevin Locke
Laszlo Ersek
Martin Kletzander
Mikhail Gordeev
Nir Soffer
Pino Toscano
Richard W.M. Jones
Valeriy Vdovin
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009-2022 Red Hat Inc.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write
to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
BUGS
To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
When reporting a bug, please supply:
• The version of libguestfs.
• Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)
• Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
• Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output into the bug report.
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