On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 02:59:14PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:

Update the list of permissions needed for VMware vCenter 6.5. --- v2v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/v2v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod b/v2v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod index 636652e50..bc17cd913 100644 --- a/v2v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod +++ b/v2v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod @@ -546,7 +546,8 @@ write to libvirt or any other supported target.

Instead of using the vCenter Administrator role, you can create a custom non-administrator role to perform the conversion. You will -however need to give it a minimum set of permissions as follows: +however need to give it a minimum set of permissions as follows +(using VMware vCenter 6.5):

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@@ -566,10 +567,12 @@ Enable (check) the following objects: - Validate session

Virtual Machine: + Interaction: + - Guest operating system management by VIX API Provisioning: - Allow disk access - Allow read-only disk access - - Guest Operating system management by VIX API + - Allow virtual machine download

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