Re: [Libguestfs] a patch that disable vmware tools services on virt-v2v
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard W.M. Jones [mailto:rjones@redhat.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 2:00 PM
To: Amos Benari
Cc: libguestfs(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] a patch that disable vmware tools services on
virt-v2v
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 06:53:54AM -0400, Amos Benari wrote:
> After applying the patch windows guest came up with no error in the
event
> log.
> +[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Parport]
> +"Start"=dword:00000004
Disabling the parallel port?
I would say this is a separate and unrelated bug in virt-v2v: either
virt-v2v should enable the parallel port under KVM in the same way as
it is configured in VMWare (if that's possible) or it should
separately disable it.
The rest of the patch looks fine, but I'm leery of including the
change to the parallel port driver.
If we don't disable the parport driver what are the consequences?
Simply an error in a log file and an unusable parport? Or is there a
more user-visible change?
The issue is the same as we have with vmware tools. Windows shows an
ugly message on first logon saying 'one or more services failed to start'
and an error on the system event log.
I don't know what can be done with the parallel port in a vm. I am not
sure it's useful in any way.
Amos
Rich.
PS. Your mailer sets the content-type of attachments to
application/octet-stream which makes it hard to reply to your patches
inline.
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