RHBA-2013:1547 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-v2v package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements
is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The virt-v2v package provides a tool for converting virtual machines to use the
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor or Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization. The tool modifies both the virtual machine image and its
associated libvirt metadata. Also, virt-v2v can configure a guest to use VirtIO
drivers if possible.

The virt-v2v package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.9.1, which provides
a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#965501)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• After using the virt-v2v utility to migrate a Windows 2003 R2 32bit guest from

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Xen to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 KVM, the guest did
not boot. With this update, the Windows Xen drivers are disabled during
conversion, and the guest now boots correctly. (BZ#809273)

• Previously, virt-v2v assumed that Microsoft Windows operating system could be

installed only to the /windows directory. Consequently, when a non-existent path
was copied during installation, virt-v2v terminated unexpectedly. With this
update, the system path is no longer hardcoded, and virt-v2v no longer crashes
in the described scenario. (BZ#820928)

• Previously, virt-v2v always used the first kernel (0th kernel) instead of the

default kernel (ex: default=1). With this update, virt-v2v uses the default
kernel to create a new migrated Virtual Machine. (BZ#829859)

• Prior to this update, during conversion of a Linux guest with multiple console

entries on the kernel boot command line, virt-v2v terminated unexpectedly. With
this update, guests with multiple consoles can be converted successfully.
(BZ#887884)

• Due to the incompatibility of vmware-tools and the virt-v2v code, the virt-v2v

utility was failing to convert ESX Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM to KVM VM
(Kernel-based VM) on the vmware-tools-foundation dependency. An upstream patch
that fixes the broken dependency has been applied, and conversions now succeed.
(BZ#953994)

Users of virt-v2v are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes
these bugs and adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 953994 - virt-v2v failing for VMware guest on vmware-tools-foundation dependency

CVEs

(none)

References

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