Security¶

There were no security-related bugs found in this release.

New features¶

Virt-v2v has been modularised allowing external programs to examine the state of the conversion and inject their own copying step. Further enhancements will be made to this new architecture in forthcoming releases.

The command line is almost identical apart from some debugging features that were removed (see below). The only significant difference is that the output format (-of) now has to be specified if it is different from the input format, whereas previous versions of virt-v2v would use the same output format as input format automatically.

A lot of time was spent improving the performance of virt-v2v in common cases.

Implement conversion of ALT Linux guests (Mikhail Gordeev).

Many bug fixes and performance enhancements were made to oVirt imageio output (Nir Soffer).

There is a new virt-v2v-in-place(1) tool which replaces the existing virt-v2v --in-place option.

Virt-v2v can now convert guests which use LUKS encrypted logical volumes (Laszlo Ersek).

Option -oo rhv-direct has been replaced by -oo rhv-proxy, and direct mode (which is much faster) is now the default when writing to oVirt, with proxy mode available for restricted network configurations (thanks: Nir Soffer).

The following command line options were removed: --print-estimate, --debug-overlays, --no-copy.

Virt-v2v no longer installs the RHEV-APT tool in Windows guests. This tool was deprecated and then removed in oVirt 4.3.

Deprecated tool virt-v2v-copy-to-local has been removed. This was deprecated in November 2018.

Other fixes¶

Remove reference to prl_strg driver in Windows guests to avoid BSOD (Denis Plotnikov).

Fix conversions of UEFI Linux guests that don't provide their own fallback bootloader (Denis Plotnikov).

Remove use of nbdkit-readahead-filter(1). This filter uses a naive strategy and it had several negative effects on conversions.

Remove prompts for interactive passwords. Normally you should try to use the -ip and/or -op options to supply passwords.

For Windows guests, we insert a schtasks command. However the parameters of this command are timezone dependent and so it failed in non-European timezones. (Thanks: Dinesh Herath, Tomáš Golembiovský, Bryan Kinney, Mark Zealey, Xiaodai Wang)

Virt-v2v will reauthenticate with vCenter servers periodically when copying guests over HTTPS which stops large guests and/or slow copies taking longer than about 30 minutes from failing.

Virt-v2v now sets libguestfs SMP to match number of physical host CPUs, which helps performance of certain conversion steps.

Virt-v2v output to oVirt now attempts to set the machine and firmware type correctly. Note an exact mapping is not always possible and oVirt may ignore our recommendations (incorrectly) sometimes.

Virt-v2v now generates a virtio-vsock device for guests which support it (Valeriy Vdovin).

All guests now need at least 100 MB of free space for conversion to succeed (Ming Xie).

Standard VGA instead of QXL is now used as the video type for converted guests (Laszlo Ersek).

Older guests (eg RHEL 6) will use the virtio-transitional model after conversion. This feature and the machine type are now usually determined from the libosinfo database, falling back to hard-coded values if libosinfo is not available (Laszlo Ersek).

When virt-v2v prints messages to a pipe or file it no longer wraps them, making parsing simpler. You can enable wrapping in this mode using --wrap (Laszlo Ersek).

Windows guest firstboot scripts installed by virt-v2v now run in the right order, making network configuration happen earlier (Laszlo Ersek).

Build changes¶

libguestfs ≥ 1.44 is now required.

nbdcopy(1) and OCaml NBD bindings, both from libnbd ≥ 1.10, are now required.

nbdkit ≥ 1.22 is now required (Nir Soffer).

pcre2 (instead of pcre) is now required.

gnulib is no longer bundled or used by virt-v2v.

OCaml ≥ 4.04 is now required. OCaml 4.13 support has been added in this release.

OpenSSH scp ≥ 8.8 is now required. Earlier versions will fail because the command line syntax was changed incompatibly.

Internals¶

Weblate instead of Zanata is now used for translations (Pino Toscano).

Bugs fixed¶

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2051394

Missing error message of 'insufficient free space in the conversion server temporary directory'

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2044922

nbdinfo output to stdout instead of stderr during virt-v2v conversion

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2044911

virt-p2v conversion hangs with RHEL9 virt-v2v

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2043333

'model='virtio-transitional' is wrongly added when converting windows guest to local by rhel9 v2v

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2041886

virt-v2v hangs for several minutes when using -ic vpx://... -it vddk with incorrect IP address

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2041852

Improve the unclear assertion failure at input_xen_ssh.ml

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2041850

Can not specify '-oo json-disks-pattern' in '-o json' mode

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2039597

Failed to import VM when selecting OVA as a source on RHV webadmin

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2039255

Conversion performance is not good when convert guest by modular virt-v2v

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2034240

calling "get_disk_allocated" in "create_ovf" breaks the rhv-upload output plugin

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2033096

RFE: Remove -oo rhv-direct and add -oo rhv-proxy option

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2032324

nbdcopy command failed when using v2v to convert guest from ESXi6.5 via vddk > 6.5 + rhv-upload to rhv4.4

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2032112

Add virt-v2v and libvirt version to the beginning of v2v debug log

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2027673

V2V can't convert guest from VMware via vmx+ssh when openssh version is 8.7p1-5

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2027598

There is no guest listed in export domain if use v2v to convert guest to rhv via -o rhv

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1994984

virt-v2v can't convert bitblocker windows guest with libguestfs error: /dev/mapper/cryptsda: No such file or directory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1977681

The usage description of '-oo rhv-disk-uuid=UUID' in man virt-v2v should be updated

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1976607

[RFE] Drop QXL for guests on CentOS 9 clusters

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1976024

[RFE][v2v] [upload/download disk/CBT] Failed to attach disk to the VM - disk is OK but image transfer still holds a lock on the disk

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1972125

Update privileges for Non-admin vmware role when ESXi host has enabled host encryption mode in virt-v2v-input-vmware man page

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1967941

virt-v2v can't install qemu-guest-agent for rhel9 guest during conversion

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1964324

assertion failed at parse_ova.ml when ova directory ends with '/'

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1961107

Change video type from qxl to vga after v2v conversion

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1960087

v2v import from vCenter fails when using interactive password because cookie-script tries to be interactive

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1949147

Should improve the minimum free space for windows guest in v2v man page and better to improve v2v error message about no space left for windows guest

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1945549

Delete or improve the warning info about rhev-apt during v2v converting windows guest on rhel9

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1942325

Virt-v2v should add 'model='virtio-transitional' to RHEL <=6 guest virtio devices during conversion if target is rhel9 system

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1926102

"virt-v2v: warning: there is no QXL driver for this version of Windows" still shows, even though we copied qxldod driver to the guest

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1917760

VMware tools not getting uninstalled as part of IMS

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1903960

Should hidden "virt-v2v: warning: /usr/share/virt-tools/pnp_wait.exe is missing.."during conversion

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1901489

VDDK 6.7 repeatedly reconnects with nbdkit: vddk[1]: debug: NBD_ClientOpen: attempting to create connection to vpxa-nfc:// followed by virt-v2v failure

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1895323

After virt-v2v, qemu-ga does not run at Windows firstboot if the timezone is not M/d/yyyy format

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1872100

Should correct info about 'UEFI on OpenStack' in virt-v2v-support man page

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1872094

Virt-v2v should convert UEFI guest to openstack via openstack option successfully

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1871754

RFE: Should clarify which file is correct authentication file for openstack/glance conversion in virt-v2v-output-openstack man page

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1868690

Ceph block device will be destroyed if v2v convert guest to ceph block device and guest disk size is greater than ceph block device

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1858775

RFE: virt-v2v should check the ip info when specify guest's ip

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1858765

V2V option --keys-from-stdin gives error: getline: Inappropriate ioctl for device

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1854275

document that vmx+ssh "-ip" auth doesn't cover ssh / scp shell commands

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1842440

nbdkit cannot read the password interactively when started from virt-v2v

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1841096

Option --bandwidth and --bandwidth-file isn't working as expected during v2v conversion

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1839917

There is no info "Opening the source -i libvirt -ic vpx://..." shown if any IP is wrong in vpx:// URL during v2v conversion

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1838425

V2V doesn't ask password if there is no option about password file in v2v command line

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1837453

[RFE]Remove cache=none for guest after v2v converting to libvirt

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1837328

Virt-v2v cannot convert guest from ESXI7.0 server without vddk

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1832805

v2v conversion will be failed because of memory allocation failure if convert guest from ESXi6.0 or ESXi6.5 via vddk, or use vddk6.5 to convert guest from VMware

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1789279

virt-v2v should give more clear error info when use some special invalid uuids for disks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1788823

Virt-v2v firstboot scripts should run in order, with v2v network configuration happening first

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1764569

V2V conversion fails when a filesystem has no free inodes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1658126

Virt-v2v can't convert guest using LUKS-on-LV

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1637857

q35 switch caused: error: unsupported configuration: IDE controllers are unsupported for this QEMU binary or machine type

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1581428

virt-v2v use Q35 as default machine-type

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1534644

New way of parsing OVF from OVA that was created by VMware fails.