Re: [Libguestfs] Trying to get started with virt-p2v

I need to p2v migrate a Windows server and I am soooo confused!

By now, I've done a few virt-v2v migrations, so I get how that works. I attended Richard and Matthew's Red Hat Summit talk about virt-p2v and just now downloaded the handouts. If I understand what's going on, virt-p2v is pretty much the same as virt-v2v, except that the physical system to migrate from needs to boot from a live CD, so that virt-v2v can connect to it. OK, makes sense. How do I get my hands on an ISO of this live CD?

Matthew's handout points to a new RPM called virt-p2v-image-builder. I see there's a Fedora 15 flavor of this RPM - but it has a bunch of dependencies. So I built up a Fedora 15 VM running as a guest on a RHEL 6.1 system. From inside my Fedora 15 VM, I do yum install virt-v2v-image-builder. This installs cleanly and takes care of dependencies. Great, so now what? I found a script - /usr/bin/virt-v2v-image-builder and ran it (but first must chmod 755 to make it work). This ran for a while and sat there like a bump on a log. After a while, I tried ctrl/C but nothing happened. So I did CTRL/Z and then kill -9 all the subprocesses it created. I tried again, doing sh -v ./virt-v2v-image-builder this time so I could get a feel for what was happening. It ran through a bunch of code and eventually blew up with an error, "Failed to find package - 'Rubygenm-virt-p2v'". What in the world does this mean? OK, clearly I don't know what I'm doing. man virt-p2v doesn't exist. But I found some online documentation here: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/virt-p2v.1.html

This mentions a pre-built ISO on Richard's site, but following the link, I see a warning that it's all being re-written. And the link to the ISO doesn't work. There's another link on Richard's site that says all the download info I need is in the handouts from Matthew's talk. But I went through Richard's talk and am having serious trouble trying to figure out how to use virt-v2v-image-builder. I'm not seeing any man pages for it and haven't found a writeup on how to use it. But why go to the trouble to build a unique live CD? Maybe there's a new pre-built ISO available someplace? I would definitely appreciate any guidance.