Problem to convert ESX guest into the KVM

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Hi  , I'm  testing   RHEV  v3 beta .

 

One of the tasks  is to convert  ESX guests   ( v 4 and 5 ) into the KVM  format  within  the RHEV-M .

 

 

1. When  I’m trying  to covert  ESX  guest ( v.4 ) into the RHEV 

 

 

#virt-v2v -ic  esx://10.45.2.130/?no_verify=1  -o rhev -osd rh6lab3:/extra/export2  --network lclients Rhel5.5-WEB-Rsync-Backup

 

I get  this error :

 

"qemu: terminating on signal 15"

 

 

2. Although everything  looks fine  and I  succeeded to import and boot  converted  guest within the RHEV  I noticed that  after  the migration not all  data present on the  KVM  guest .So, most of a data  was under the /root  on ESX  guest   is not found on KVM  guest .

 

 

Full   vrt-v2v  putput :

# virt-v2v -ic  esx://10.45.2.130/?no_verify=1  -o rhev -osd rh6lab3.il.nds.com:/extra/export2  --network lclients Rhel5.5-WEB-Rsync-Backup

PD RHEL 5 Image_PD RHEL 5 Image: 100% [================================================================]D 0h41m11s

qemu: terminating on signal 15 from pid 17463

virt-v2v: Rhel5.5-WEB-Rsync-Backup configured with virtio drivers

 

Any ideas ?

 

 

Thanks ,

 

 

/Vlad.

 

nd
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nd Pro 500 points
28 November 2011 4:13 PM

Update for the theread .

 

I upgraded  virt-v2v  and rhevmto the latest version :virt-v2v-0.8.3-5.el6 , rhevm-3.0.0_0001-51.el6 

and  still  get this errors :

 

 

#virt-v2v -ic esx://10.45.7.51/?no_verify=1  -o rhev -osd rh6lab3:/extra/export2  --network lclients  esxvm

esxvm_esxvm: 100% [====================================================================================]D 0h04m36s
find: failed to restore initial working directory: Permission denied
virt-v2v: esxvm configured with virtio drivers.
 
 
Import  KVM guest  went smoothly  .
 
What  the error above means ?
 
 
/Vlad .
 

 

virt-v2v -ic esx://10.45.7.51/?no_verify=1  -o rhev -osd rh6lab3.il.nds.com:/extra/export2  --network lclients  esxvm
esxvm_esxvm: 100% [====================================================================================]D 0h04m36s
find: failed to restore initial working directory: Permission denied
virt-v2v: esxvm configured with virtio drivers.
RJ Red Hat Active Contributor 347 points
29 November 2011 3:47 PM

I've asked Matt to look at this.

 

This is RHEL 6.something right?  What version of libguestfs is it?

RJ Red Hat Active Contributor 347 points
29 November 2011 4:10 PM

It would be very useful to see the output of the same command, but with the following environment variables set:

export LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1
export LIBGUESTFS_TRACE=1

That will produce a lot of output so you may need to attach it as a file.

Is /root a separate partition?

What was the nature of the data corruption?

Is NFS involved here at any point?

nd Pro 500 points
1 December 2011 2:05 PM

I repeated  V2V  test  with  ESX  vm  with  and without  LVM

 

For  ESX  vm  without  LVM   for /  -  v2v  worked fine except that  the esx  vm's  /dev/sda

wasn't  converted to the  /dev/vda  - had to fix it maually in grub.conf .

 

When converted  esx vm   that  failed  earlier the problem raised  again - kvm guest  started but  some data within  /root  is  missing .

 

No  ,  /root  is under  the /  is a separate  file system 

No , neither NFS  configs take place .

Data  wasn't  corrupted -  it simply  not found  under the  /root .It looks like after  clean  OS install .

 

How I may upload logs ?

RJ Red Hat Active Contributor 347 points
1 December 2011 2:07 PM

the versions, and have full debug output.

 

Do have access to a webserver where you could upload the log files?

RJ Red Hat Active Contributor 347 points
1 December 2011 2:48 PM

I think the best thing here is to join us on the upstream mailing list:

 

http://libguestfs.org/

 

You can post to libguestfs@redhat.com with large debug files etc. and we can have a look at the problem.

 

Please make sure you put the version numbers of everything you are using when you post.