RHEA-2012:0965 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new virt-p2v package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Virt-P2V is a tool for conversion of a physical server to a virtual guest.

This enhancement update adds the virt-p2v package to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6,
which contains a bootable ISO image for Virt-P2V conversion. The ISO image is
also available on Red Hat Network in the Downloads section of the following
channels:

RHEL AUS Server (v. 6.2 for 64-bit x86_64)
RHEL EUS Server (v. 6.2.z for 64-bit x86_64)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 6 for 64-bit x86_64)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compute Node (v. 6 for x86_64)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 for 64-bit x86_64)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6 for x86_64)

The bootable image is needed to use the tool as the disks must be unmounted and
not in use at the time of conversion. It allows you to convert servers running
Microsoft Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux into virtual guests on Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization or libvirt hosts. For further information, refer to
the
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/V2V_Guide/index.html documentation page. (BZ#807445)

All users who require virt-p2v should install this new package.

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/knowledge/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 - 800776 - P2V fail with error:Error receiving data
• BZ - 813640 - virt-p2v can not discover disks of physical host with Adaptec aacraid driver
• BZ - 816922 - p2v display not disk device under fixed storage and cause can not convert.
• BZ - 818119 - p2v does not display the disk device of cciss storage.

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/V2V_Guide/index.html