Issued:

2013-11-21

Updated:

2014-01-16

RHBA-2013:1749 - virt-v2v bug fix update

Synopsis

virt-v2v bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-v2v package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The virt-v2v package provides 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 the following bug:

• An update to virt-v2v included upstream support for the import of OVA images exported by VMware servers. Unfortunately, testing has shown that VMDK images created by recent versions of VMware ESX cannot be reliably supported, thus this feature has been withdrawn. (BZ#1028983)

Users of virt-v2v are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• virt-v2v-0.9.1-5.el6_5.x86_64.rpm
• virt-v2v-0.9.1-5.el6_5.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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