Re: [Libguestfs] Virt-v2v virtio device limit?
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:11:24AM +0000, Davis, Richard wrote:
Am I right in thinking this is because the virt-v2v process
(libguestfs/qemu-kvm) see's the devices as IDE's as opposed to
virtio and is therefore subject to the restricted 4x IDE device
limit of old? Or at least , that's how I'm interpreting the DEBUG
output.
Yes. Because some ancient guest [RHEL 3?]'s mkinitrd would only work
under IDE emulation, unfortunately virt-v2v always uses IDE emulation,
so is restricted to 4 disks. 1 or 2 are used for other purposes
depending on how you configure virt-v2v.
This will all be fixed in the rewrite.
Rich.
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