Re: [Libguestfs] Fwd: virt-v2v creating image that does not install guest agent on first boot

Hi Richard,        Sorry, I missed the email, I found out that the ova OS used by the customer is win11 uefi, so I tried to reproduce the error today using win11-uefi guest Steps: 1. Convert win10-efi with UTC-8 timezone, win11-non-efi with UTC-8 timezone, win11-efi with UTC-8 timezone, win11-efi with UTC+8 timezone, win2022-efi with UTC-8 timezone from VMware by v2v, then check the installation status after finishing conversion Summary the test result as below:                                             qemu-ga   Win10-efi-UTC-8              PASS   Win11-non-efi UTC-8       PASS   Win11-efi-UTC-8              FAIL(can't find qemu-ga log in c:\)   Win11-efi-UTC+8             FAIL(can't find qemu-ga log in c:\)   Win2022-efi-UTC-8          PASS

  Based on the above results, I think this problem is only caused by win11-efi and has nothing to do with the time zone "UTC-8" The following are existing bugs about qemu-ga: Bug 1820144 - cannot install qemu-ga to some guests even if scheduled qemu-ga installation task exist Bug 2114809 - Can't install qemu-ga because of network address error after converting MD-RAID1 win11 host by virt-p2v Bug 1820152 - Fail to execute installation-qemu-ga.msi for win2012r2 and win8.1-i386 guests Thanks & Regards Ming Xie On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 6:40 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 07:47:52PM +0200, Lee Garrett wrote: > On 21.09.23 19:43, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >So this is probably another instance or variation of the timezone > >formatting problem (of schtasks).  Which version of virt-v2v is this? > >I want to check that you have a version with all the latest patches in > >this area. > > It's 2.2.0-1 from Debian (12) bookworm. I've verified that it > doesn't have any distro-specific patches. > > (https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/virt-v2v/-/tree/debian/master/ debian > would have a patches/series file in this case) The timezone fixes are: commit 597d177567234c3a539098c423649781424eeb6f Author: Laszlo Ersek <lersek(a)redhat.com&gt; Date:   Tue Mar 8 15:30:51 2022 +0100     convert_windows: rewrite "configure_qemu_ga" script purely in PowerShell commit d9dc6c42ae64ba92993dbd9477f003ba73fcfa2f Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; Date:   Fri Nov 12 08:47:55 2021 +0000     convert/convert_windows.ml: Handle date formats with dots instead of / They are all included in >= 2.0 I wonder if 597d177567 has a subtle flaw, or if we introduced a bug somewhere when refactoring this code later. Lee: Do you have a theory about exactly what is wrong with the schtasks date?  Like what was it supposed to be, assuming it was 120 seconds in the future from boot time, versus what it was set to: > Firstboot-qemu-ga                        9/21/2023 4:04:00 PM   Ready Could a date or time field have not been swapped or been corrupted in some predictable way? The code we run is here: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs-common/blob/ e70d89a58dae068be2e19c7c21558707261af96a/mlcustomize/inject_virtio_win.ml# L571 Ming: this could be a bug affecting PST (UTC-8) guests, perhaps somehow related to having a single digit month field? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/ ~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines.  Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages.  http://libguestfs.org