On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 04:51:57AM -0700, zhujinhe wrote:

If dd does not support status=progress, copy process will abort at the end. This is totally misguided. We can use -q as a workaround in this circumstance, but it is frightening to newbee like me. Maybe we should improve this.

suspicion： ``` if shell_command cmd <> 0 then error (f_"ssh copy command failed, see earlier errors"); ```

detail： ``` shell > virt-v2v-copy-to-local -v -ic xen+ssh://myxen_server guest [ 0.0] Fetching the remote libvirt XML metadata ... [ 1.6] Parsing the remote libvirt XML metadata ... [ 1.6] Copying remote disk 1/2 to guest-disk1 dd: invalid status flag: ‘progress’ Try 'dd --help' for more information. 40960+0 records in 40960+0 records out 42949672960 bytes (43 GB) copied, 876.05 seconds, 49.0 MB/s virt-v2v-copy-to-local: error: ssh copy command failed, see earlier errors

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This feature was added to the dd command in coreutils in Sept 2014, nearly 4 years ago. Which Linux distribution are you using? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/