Issued:

2012-11-16

Updated:

2012-11-16

RHBA-2012:1468 - virt-v2v bug fix update

Synopsis

virt-v2v bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-v2v packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The virt-v2v packages provide a tool for converting virtual machines to use the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor or Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. The tool modifies both the virtual machine image and its associated libvirt metadata. Also, virt-v2v can configure a guest to use VirtIO drivers if possible.

This update fixes this following bug:

• Previously, when the virt-v2v utility was used to convert a virtual machine (VM) from a foreign hypervisor (such as Xen or VMware) to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, it set the vm_snapshot_id identifier of all disks of that VM incorrectly. Consequently, various problems occurred while doing a large number of tasks on this VM from the side of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. With this update, a unique identifier is generated for each disk in the described scenario, thus preventing this bug. (BZ#872496)

Users of virt-v2v are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• virt-v2v-0.8.7-7.el6_3.src.rpm
• virt-v2v-0.8.7-7.el6_3.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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