7:17 a.m.
I should have this in my head by now...
I tried migrating a physical Windows host last night using virt-p2v CD.
It ran for 3 hours and then died. I'll get details later from the log
but as I think about it, I'll bet it died because I never installed
virtio-win in my Fedora migration server.
The documentation says do "yum install virtio-win" - but this is RHEL
documentation and my migration server is a Fedora 14 VM and yum doesn't
find it from there. Where do I grab virtio-win and how do I set it up
on that Fedora system such that virt-p2v-server will find it and use it
during a Windows P2V migration?
Thanks
- Greg Scott
8:12 a.m.
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 07:17:06AM -0600, Greg Scott wrote:
I should have this in my head by now...
I tried migrating a physical Windows host last night using virt-p2v CD.
It ran for 3 hours and then died. I'll get details later from the log
but as I think about it, I'll bet it died because I never installed
virtio-win in my Fedora migration server.
The documentation says do "yum install virtio-win" - but this is RHEL
documentation and my migration server is a Fedora 14 VM and yum doesn't
find it from there. Where do I grab virtio-win and how do I set it up
on that Fedora system such that virt-p2v-server will find it and use it
during a Windows P2V migration?
We don't have an RPM for Fedora. It wouldn't be possible to add this
to Fedora right now since we cannot yet cross-compile it from source
using a completely Free toolchain. In future we probably will be able
to do this with mingw64.
The latest virtio-win ISO images are here:
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/
Rich.
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libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting,
bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
9:53 p.m.
OK - thanks. I just now saw this. Our P2V still blew up, even when I
put that .ISO file where I think it's supposed to go.
The Fedora docs say to do yum install virtio-win. Should I log a
bugzilla about that?
Until RHEL 6.3, is Fedora pretty much the only way to make this work or
is there a better solution? And if Fedora, is Fedora 14 still the best
release for this or should I be looking at something newer for a
migration server?
Thanks
- Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard W.M. Jones [mailto:rjones@redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 8:13 AM
To: Greg Scott
Cc: libguestfs(a)redhat.com; Fredy Hernandez; mbooth(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] Virtio-win RPM?
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 07:17:06AM -0600, Greg Scott wrote:
I should have this in my head by now...
I tried migrating a physical Windows host last night using virt-p2v
CD.
It ran for 3 hours and then died. I'll get details later from
the log
but as I think about it, I'll bet it died because I never installed
virtio-win in my Fedora migration server.
The documentation says do "yum install virtio-win" - but this is RHEL
documentation and my migration server is a Fedora 14 VM and yum
doesn't
find it from there. Where do I grab virtio-win and how do I set it
up
on that Fedora system such that virt-p2v-server will find it and use
it
during a Windows P2V migration?
We don't have an RPM for Fedora. It wouldn't be possible to add this
to Fedora right now since we cannot yet cross-compile it from source
using a completely Free toolchain. In future we probably will be able
to do this with mingw64.
The latest virtio-win ISO images are here:
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting,
bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
10:24 p.m.
I was looking this thread over and for anyone who stumbles across this
via google or other search engine:
We don't have an RPM for Fedora. It wouldn't be possible to
add this
to Fedora right now since we cannot yet cross-compile it from source
using a completely Free toolchain.
.
.
.
The latest virtio-win ISO images are here:
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/
Note that for V2V and P2V migrations, the virtio-win ISO is not enough.
The RHEL virtio-win RPM includes the ISO plus unpacked copies of the
drivers for various Windows versions in /usr/share/virtio-win/drivers...
You need these unpacked drivers at the end of a P2V or V2V so the
process can insert them into the new VM. P2V and V2V migrations will
fail without it. The RHEL virtio-win RPM installs just fine in Fedora;
I hope Fedora will find a way to officially include it soon.
- Greg
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