[Libguestfs] failure converting Linux ESX guest to KVM hypervisor

[Matthew Booth]

On 12/08/2011 02:32 PM, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 12/07/2011 09:19 PM, John Kienle wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am experiencing a failure running virt-v2v to convert a Linux guest on
>> an ESX host to a RedHat KVM hypervisor. The output with the failure
>> follows. Any help/guidance is appreciated.
>>
>> [root at storage-024 ~]# virt-v2v -ic esx://<ip address>/?no_verify=1 -op
>> transferimages --bridge br0 dev-03 > /tmp/virt-v2v.output
>
> ...
>
>> libguestfs: trace: exists "/etc/conf.modules"
>> libguestfs: trace: exists = 0
>> libguestfs: trace: exists "/etc/modules.conf"
>> libguestfs: trace: exists = 0
>> libguestfs: trace: exists "/etc/modprobe.conf"
>> libguestfs: trace: exists = 0
>> libguestfs: trace: exists "/etc/modprobe.d"
>> libguestfs: trace: exists = 0
>> libguestfs: trace: umount_all
>> libguestfs: trace: umount_all = 0
>> libguestfs: trace: sync
>> libguestfs: trace: sync = 0
>> libguestfs: trace: kill_subprocess
>> libguestfs: trace: kill_subprocess = 0
>> virt-v2v: Unable to find any valid modprobe configuration
>
> Does the guest contain any of /etc/conf.modules, /etc/modules.conf,
> /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/? What distribution of Linux is
> the guest?

Ignore that question. I can see from the output that it's "Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)", and that the problem is 
caused by incorrect mounting of /boot as /.

I'm struggling to find the precise patch right now, but I'm convinced 
we've fixed this bug. It could have been in either libguestfs or 
virt-v2v. My memory is failing me. Can you please try again using either 
the recently released RHEL 6.2, or F16?

Thanks,

Matt
-- 
Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS
Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team

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