On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 01:07:58PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:

virt-v2v obviously cannot convert this kind of devices, since they are specific to the host of the hypervisor. Thus, emit a warning about the presence of passthrough host devices, so at least this can be noticed when converting a guest. --- v2v/parse_libvirt_xml.ml | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/v2v/parse_libvirt_xml.ml b/v2v/parse_libvirt_xml.ml index 84c5d4fc7..c71707000 100644 --- a/v2v/parse_libvirt_xml.ml +++ b/v2v/parse_libvirt_xml.ml @@ -460,6 +460,22 @@ let parse_libvirt_xml ?conn xml = done; List.rev !nics in

+ (* Check for hostdev devices. (RHBZ#1472719) *) + let () = + let obj = Xml.xpath_eval_expression xpathctx "/domain/devices/hostdev" in + let nr_nodes = Xml.xpathobj_nr_nodes obj in + if nr_nodes > 0 then ( + (* Sadly fn_ in ocaml-gettext seems broken, and always returns the + * singular string no matter what. Work around this by using a simple + * string with sn_ (which works), and outputting it as a whole. + *) + let msg = sn_ "this guest has a passthrough host device which will be ignored" + "this guest has passthrough host devices which will be ignored" + nr_nodes in + warning "%s" msg + ) + in

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