[ovirt-devel] Re: virt-sparsify failed (was: [oVirt Jenkins] ovirt-system-tests_basic-suite-master_nightly - Build # 479 - Failure!)

2020-11-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 09:16:33AM +0200, Yedidyah Bar David wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 8:54 AM Yedidyah Bar David wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 8:40 PM Richard W.M. Jones > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:56:29PM +0300, N

[ovirt-devel] Re: virt-sparsify failed (was: [oVirt Jenkins] ovirt-system-tests_basic-suite-master_nightly - Build # 479 - Failure!)

2020-10-13 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 07:56:29PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 7:15 PM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 06:45:42PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > > > I think this is the right solution - when virt-something tool fails, > >

[ovirt-devel] Re: virt-sparsify failed (was: [oVirt Jenkins] ovirt-system-tests_basic-suite-master_nightly - Build # 479 - Failure!)

2020-10-13 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 06:45:42PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > I think this is the right solution - when virt-something tool fails, > it should log the reason for the failure - the error that caused the > tool to fail. I'm not sure this is easy to do as the failing code > run inside a special VM. Ma

[ovirt-devel] Re: Disk sizes not updated on unmap/discard

2020-10-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 01:57:04AM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 1:49 PM Tomáš Golembiovský > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > currently, when we run virt-sparsify on VM or user runs VM with discard > > enabled and when the disk is on block storage in qcow, the results are > > not refl

[ovirt-devel] Re: [ARM64] Possiblity to support oVirt on ARM64

2020-07-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 04:29:15PM +0800, Zhenyu Zheng wrote: > Hi, > > Any other comments for this topic? libguestfs, nbdkit and virt-v2v have also worked (upstream) for years out of the box on aarch64, so there should be no problem there. If you're interested in RHV (ie. oVirt downstream on RH

[ovirt-devel] Re: v2v: -o rhv-upload: Upload via NBD

2018-12-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 07:11:28PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: > I posted this patch for vdsm, adding NBD APIs: > https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/96079/ Great stuff. What's the minimum version of oVirt which will have this feature and what's the approximate date when we can assume most users of oVirt wil

[ovirt-devel] Re: Mailing-Lists upgrade

2018-05-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 05:55:57PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > This change has dropped the X-BeenThere header, ie: > > X-BeenThere: devel@ovirt.org > > X-BeenThere: us...@ovirt.org > > which means filtering the mails is no longer possible. There doesn&#x

[ovirt-devel] Re: Mailing-Lists upgrade

2018-05-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
This change has dropped the X-BeenThere header, ie: X-BeenThere: devel@ovirt.org X-BeenThere: us...@ovirt.org which means filtering the mails is no longer possible. There doesn't appear to be any other distinguishing header. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://peopl

Re: [ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] Unremovable disks created through the API

2018-03-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 03:12:58PM +0200, Arik Hadas wrote: > If for some predefined period of time no new disk is added or an upload > doesn't make any progress (assuming the uploads are done sequentially), to > fail the import operation and that would roll back the resources (disks, > VMs) that w

Re: [ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] Unremovable disks created through the API

2018-03-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 01:26:39PM +0200, Arik Hadas wrote: > Interesting, that contradicts my intuition - I would imagine that most of > the things are actually known (the things that appear in the top-level part > of the domain xml: memory size, memory size, num of CPUs, name,.. ) and > only thin

Re: [ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] Unremovable disks created through the API

2018-03-07 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 10:42:31AM +0200, Arik Hadas wrote: > (Moving to devel-list) > BTW, I think that the import process should include a preliminary phase > where ovirt-engine is informed that the import process starts. > > Currently, IIUC, the new process is designed to be: > 1. virt-v2v uplo

Re: [ovirt-devel] Packages for Python SDK

2018-02-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 04:46:18PM +0100, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:31:22 + > "Richard W.M. Jones" wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 02:26:09PM +0100, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > are there a

Re: [ovirt-devel] Packages for Python SDK

2018-02-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 02:26:09PM +0100, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote: > Hi, > > are there any plans to have the packages for Python SDK in base > repositories of CentOS and Fedora? They seem to be available only from > oVirt and Virt SIG repos. > > I saw that Juan used to build the v3 packages for

Re: [ovirt-devel] Removal of Export Storage Domain and virt-v2v

2017-06-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 02:52:56PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Yaniv wrote: > > And indeed, we won't deprecate it without a suitable replacement. > > While you can already upload disks, we are working towards upload/download > > of VMs. > > See > >

Re: [ovirt-devel] Removal of Export Storage Domain and virt-v2v

2017-06-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
t 03:30:12PM +0300, Arik Hadas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones > wrote: > > Although virt-v2v can still work via the GUI, this isn't really > > suitable for bulk, scripted upload of hundreds or thousands of VMs. > > > > We now

[ovirt-devel] Removal of Export Storage Domain and virt-v2v

2017-06-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
As you may know virt-v2v can use the Export Storage Domain (ESD) to upload converted virtual machines to oVirt. It was brought to my attention yesterday that the ESD feature is being dropped, so this will no longer work at some point in the future. (BTW I would appreciate notice if you're going t

Re: [ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] Feature: enhanced OVA support

2017-05-15 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 04:56:56PM +0300, Arik Hadas wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We would like to share our plan for extending the currently provided > support for OVA files with: > 1. Support for uploading OVA. > 2. Support for exporting a VM/template as OVA. > 3. Support for importing OVA that was

Re: [ovirt-devel] execCmd() and storing stdout and stderr in log file

2016-07-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 02:40:06PM +0200, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote: > This is something I have tried as first, as you can see here: > > https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/59834/4/lib/vdsm/v2v.py@404 > > The problem with this approach is that we don't get proper exit code from > virt-v2v > because of t

Re: [ovirt-devel] execCmd() and storing stdout and stderr in log file

2016-07-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 03:07:29PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > This should work with execCmd, since the special subprocess.STDOUT > parameter is handled in subprocess.Popen, and cpopen.CPopen inherit > this code. However this is not tested with cpopen, so it may be broken. > > But merging stdout an

Re: [ovirt-devel] In-place sparsify support in VDSM

2016-05-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I was working on this piece of code today: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/3fb35e66272ab675bb335a7ae1b6c0299b96bd18/src/launch-direct.c#L1377-L1459 which reminded me of this email thread. The above function in libguestfs encodes which versions of qemu and which block drivers in qe

Re: [ovirt-devel] In-place sparsify support in VDSM

2016-05-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 09:50:07PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Shmuel Melamud wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > There is an RFE being implemented currently ( > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734120) to use --inplace > > option in virt-sparsify to sparsify a d

[ovirt-devel] OVA imports into virt-v2v (was: Re: [ovirt-users] virt-v2v integration feature)

2014-11-27 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:11:24AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:41:16AM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote: > > On 07/10/2014 10:29 AM, Sven Kieske wrote: > > > > > > > > >Am 09.07.2014 20:30, schrieb Arik Hadas: > > >>Hi All,

Re: [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v intergration with vdsm

2014-10-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 04:56:55AM -0400, Arik Hadas wrote: > Rich, I remember that we came into conclusion that we don't have a faster > way than doing the full conversion that will give us better estimation than > taking the virtual size + some buffer, right? No - see previous email. We do bett

Re: [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v intergration with vdsm

2014-10-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 04:23:31AM -0400, Arik Hadas wrote: > - the second option will be based on estimations of the actual size > of the converted disks and since all we know is their > virtual-sizes, we might allocated much more space that we need so > we'll need another phase of shrinking

Re: [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v intergration with vdsm

2014-09-30 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 01:19:46PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > - hostname of RHEL 5 Xen server - Optional port number of ssh server on RHEL 5 Xen server > - username > - password > - name of the guest Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://peopl

Re: [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v intergration with vdsm

2014-09-30 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
To expand on the previous email, the web page is quite vague about what precise sources you want to import from. The ones supported by virt-v2v are: - VMware live vCenter: I assume you would want this. (Note ESXi is mentioned in the web page, but virt-v2v does not support import from ESXi

Re: [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v intergration with vdsm

2014-09-30 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:37:44AM +0200, Michal Skrivanek wrote: > On Sep 16, 2014, at 14:17 , Shahar Havivi wrote: > > More details on virt-v2v integration can be found in its feature page: > > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/virt-v2v_Integration > > sounds good > anyone else?:) Is this directed

Re: [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v integration feature

2014-09-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:11:37PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 09/10/2014 02:55 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:36:59PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote: > >>- Windows VMs - v2v would need to make sure relevant iso is in the iso > >> domai

Re: [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v integration feature

2014-09-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:36:59PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote: > - Windows VMs - v2v would need to make sure relevant iso is in the iso > domain probably with the drivers expected by v2v? I'm not 100% sure how this works, but I'll tell you what virt-v2v does (which is the same as old virt-v2v). I

Re: [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v integration feature

2014-09-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:41:27AM +0300, Shahar Havivi wrote: > Rich: Can we get the estimated size when we run with --no-copy? BTW you need to file bugs for all feature changes needed in virt-v2v. If there's no bug it will get forgotten about. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red

Re: [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v integration feature

2014-09-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:41:27AM +0300, Shahar Havivi wrote: > On 02.09.14 09:26, Arik Hadas wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Better late than never.. > > > > Thanks for all the feedback, it was really constructive. > > I made major changes in the wiki page to address the comments, > > Please take an

Re: [ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] virt-v2v integration feature

2014-07-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:41:16AM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 07/10/2014 10:29 AM, Sven Kieske wrote: > > > > > >Am 09.07.2014 20:30, schrieb Arik Hadas: > >>Hi All, > >> > >>The proposed feature will introduce a new process of import virtual > >>machines from external systems using virt-v2v i

Re: [ovirt-devel] virt-v2v integration feature

2014-07-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 01:04:48AM -0400, Oved Ourfali wrote: > As for installing virt-v2v, I don't know if that's an issue to add a > dependency on it, and to include it in all hosts supporting cluster > level >= 3.6. However, if it is an issue, then it can be selected > at the host level when ad