New subject: check-release success (was: Re: [PATCH v2] v2v: docs: VDSM location of virt-v2v log file.)

Friday, 7 July 2017

See this bug for background information:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350465

Thanks: Tomáš Golembiovský
---
 v2v/virt-v2v.pod | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod
index e68d75cf8..0943bf305 100644
--- a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod
+++ b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod
@@ -1909,18 +1909,32 @@ that guest through the RHV-M UI, you may encounter an import
failure.
 Diagnosing these failures is infuriatingly difficult as the UI
 generally hides the true reason for the failure.
 
-There are two log files of interest.  The first is stored on the
-RHV-M server itself, and is called
-F</var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log>
-
-The second file, which is the most useful, is found on the SPM host
-(SPM stands for "Storage Pool Manager").  This is a RHV node that is
-elected to do all metadata modifications in the data center, such as
-image or snapshot creation.  You can find out which host is the
-current SPM from the "Hosts" tab "Spm Status" column.  Once you have
-located the SPM, log into it and grab the file
-F</var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log> which will contain detailed error messages
-from low-level commands.
+There are three log files of interest:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item F</var/log/vdsm/import/>
+
+In oVirt E<ge> 4.1.0, vdsm preserves the virt-v2v log file for
+30 days in this directory.
+
+This directory is found on the host which performed the conversion.
+The host can be selected in the import dialog, or can be found under
+the C<Events> tab in oVirt administration.
+
+=item F</var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log>
+
+As above, this file is present on the host which performed the
+conversion.  It contains detailed error messages from low-level
+operations executed by VDSM, and is useful if the error was not caused
+by virt-v2v, but by VDSM.
+
+=item F</var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log>
+
+This log file is stored on the RHV-M server.  It contains more detail
+for any errors caused by the oVirt GUI.
+
+=back
 
 =head1 MINIMAL XML FOR -i libvirtxml OPTION
 
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[PATCH v2] v2v: docs: VDSM location of virt-v2v log file.