libguestfs is a set of tools for reading and modifying disk images and virtual machines. virt-v2v and virt-p2v are tools for converting guests from foreign hypervisors (especially VMware, Xen), or physical machines, to run on KVM (eg. virt-manager, OpenStack/RHOS or oVirt/RHEV). This is just a heads-up about some changes to the way libguestfs and related packages will be packaged in RHEL 7.2. Previously (<= 7.1): - libguestfs required qemu-kvm-rhev (qemu-kvm-ev in CentOS). - libguestfs-winsupport was in a separate RHEL channel. - libguestfs-winsupport had file conflicts with ntfs-3g. - virt-v2v was not shipped in RHEL 7.1. - There were missing BuildRequires. Starting with RHEL 7.2: - libguestfs requires qemu-kvm. (You can still use qemu-kvm-ev if you want). - There is an upgraded qemu-kvm package that contains the extra features from qemu-kvm-ev that libguestfs needed. - libguestfs-winsupport will be shipped in the base RHEL Server channel, as an ordinary package. - libguestfs-winsupport won't conflict with any EPEL packages. - virt-v2v is built as a binary sub-package of libguestfs, and shipped in the base RHEL Server channel. - There should be no missing BuildRequires this time. Hopefully this is a simplification, and will make everyone's job easier. If there's any fall-out from these changes that affects CentOS, please let me know - best to CC me on any emails. - - - Now for something that is -- unfortunately -- still complicated: virt-p2v is a CD/ISO that we build to allow conversions of physical machines to KVM. You have to boot the physical machine with the CD. For this reason the virt-p2v ISO that we give to RHEL customers contains a bootable RHEL distro. In RHEL we build this using an (IMHO over-complicated) method starting with a kickstart, building an ISO, and then wrapping the ISO in an RPM. If CentOS has a way to ship ISOs, then it's likely better for CentOS just to build the ISO and stop there. To get the kickstart, run: $ virt-p2v-make-kickstart -o p2v.ks http://centos.org/path/to/7.2/repo Further instructions here: http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v-make-kickstart.1.html Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
