virt-v2v-release-notes - virt-v2v release notes for 2.4

Authors

       Authors of virt-v2v 2.4:

       Andrey Drobyshev
       Emilio Herrera
       grimst
       HATAYAMA Daisuke
       Jan Kuparinen
       Jürgen Hötzel
       Laszlo Ersek
       Pavel Borecki
       Piotr Drąg
       Richard W.M. Jones
       Roman Kagan
       Temuri Doghonadze
       Yuri Chornoivan

Bugs

       To      get      a      list      of      bugs      against      libguestfs,      use      this     link:
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

       To      report      a      new       bug       against       libguestfs,       use       this       link:
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

       When reporting a bug, please supply:

       •   The version of libguestfs.

       •   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)

       •   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.

       •   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete,unedited output into the bug report.

virt-v2v-2.6.0                                     2024-11-30                      virt-v2v-release-notes-2.4(1)

Copyright

       Copyright (C) 2009-2024 Red Hat Inc.

Description

These are the release notes for virt-v2v2.4. This describes the major changes since 2.2.

Virt-v2v 2.4.0 was released on 5January2024.

Newfeatures
New --block-driver option which can be used to choose to install either virtio-blk or virtio-scsi drivers
(Andrey Drobyshev).

The virt-v2v --key option now recognizes LVM names like /dev/mapper/rhel_bootp--73--75--123-root (Laszlo
Ersek).

The --key option also supports a new --keyall:... selector to try the same key on all devices.

Featureremoved
Support for RHEL 3 conversions has been removed.

Otherfixes
Conversions now set the "host-model" CPU in the output metadata, except where the source hypervisor
overrides this. The exception is -oqemu mode which uses -cpuhost. (Thanks Ming Xie, Laszlo Ersek, Dr.
David Alan Gilbert, Daniel Berrangé)

virt-v2v will now look for bootloader configuration in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for UEFI guests (Andrey
Drobyshev).

Invoke pnputil (if available) to install drivers, fixing some Windows conversions (Andrey Drobyshev).

Skip SELinux relabelling if the guest has disabled SELinux (Roman Kagan).

Several output modes now generate metadata to indicate whether the guest requires the RTC to be set to
UTC (Linux) or localtime (most Windows). For example with -olibvirt this generates
<clock offset="utc|localtime"/>. (Thanks Lee Garrett, Laszlo Ersek)

-iova mode is now less strict about parsing the manifest file, which helps when converting some non-
conforming OVA files.

Input modes using -itssh now use the correct quoting (thanks Bill Sanders, Laszlo Ersek).

-ivmx mode now rejects VMDK files explicitly, reducing a source of user confusion (thanks Ming Xie).

Multiple fixes to -okubevirt mode. Also implement -oocompressed for this mode. (Thanks Xiaodai Wang,
Ming Xie)

-olibvirt mode now supports Rocky Linux (thanks Ming Xie).

-oopenstack documentation for cloud configurations fixed (thanks Ming Xie).

-orhv-upload mode has an improved error when the -os parameter is invalid or missing (thanks Junqin
Zhou).

Buildchanges
Support for OCaml 5, and OCaml ≥ 4.07 is now the minimum (thanks Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni, Jerry James,
Josh Berdine, Jürgen Hötzel, Vincent Laviron).

Fix several tests so they can handle the case where the operating system does not support btrfs or NTFS,
instead of failing (Laszlo Ersek).

Fix compatibility issues with libxml2 2.12.

Internals
Fix an off-by-one error which caused very rare crashes in virt-v2v.

Bugsfixed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2182024
improve UX when running as root and we can't chown v2v tmpdir or socks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2175703
virt-v2v failed to inspect RHEL9.2 guest due to kernel-core / kernel-modules-core subpackage split

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2172075
Modify virt-v2v-output-openstack man page to add cloud.yaml related information

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2168506
RFE: Virt-v2v should recognize partition names like '/dev/mapper/rhel boot--73--75--123-root' in
related keys option

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2168082
win11/2022 failed to start into OS after converting to local libvirt via virt-v2v on AMD EPYC-Milan
CPU model host

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2166619
kernel panic when booting into OS with rocky9 guest converted by v2v to local libvirt

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2166618
There is virt-v2v: warning: unknown guest operating system: linux rocky 9.1 x86_64 when convert rocky
guests to local libvirt

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2162444
Enable '--oo compressed' for -o kubevirt

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2162332
-o kubevirt mode must rename guest to comply with KubeVirt requirements: metadata.name: Invalid
value: "esx8.0-rhel8.8-x86_64": a lowercase RFC 1123 subdomain must consist of lower case
alphanumeric characters, '-' or '.', and must start and end with an a

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1986386
Improve error message when converting to rhv using the wrong data domain name which has a specific
character

License

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  it  under  the  terms  of  the  GNU
       General  Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
       (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even
       the  implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public
       License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not,  write
       to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

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       virt-v2v-release-notes - virt-v2v release notes for 2.4