ANNOUNCE: virt-v2v 1.42 - a tool for importing VMs from VMware (and other foreign hypervisors) to KVM

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Virt-v2v is a program for converting virtual machines to run on KVM,
ones imported from other hypervisors like VMware, Xen and more, and
with the companion tool virt-p2v from physical machines too.

I'm pleased to announce the release of virt-v2v 1.42.  This is a new
stable branch.  Significantly the tool is now released separately and
on a different schedule from libguestfs.

Manual:   http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html
Download: http://download.libguestfs.org/virt-v2v/1.42-stable/
Git repo: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v
Fedora:   https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=9181

Release notes (also available on the web:
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v-release-notes-1.42.1.html )

       These are the release notes for virt-v2v 1.42, released on
       16th April 2020.

   New features
       This is the first release where virt-v2v lives in a separate repository
       from libguestfs.  The two projects are now broadly decoupled from one
       another.

       Add a new -o json output mode.  Primarily this is used to do
       conversions to KubeVirt (Pino Toscano).

       Use new libvirt "<firmware>" feature to get the source guest firmware
       (Pino Toscano).

       virt-v2v -o rhv-upload new option -oo rhv-disk-uuid allows disk UUIDs
       to be specified.  Also -oo rhv-cafile is now optional (Pino Toscano).

       Conversions over ssh now use nbdkit-ssh-plugin(1) instead of the QEMU
       ssh driver.  Similarly nbdkit-curl-plugin(1) is used instead of the
       QEMU curl driver.  This allowed us to add more flexible features such
       as password authentication, bandwidth throttling (new --bandwidth
       option), readahead, and automatic retry on network failures.

       For Windows guests, QEMU Guest Agent MSI may now be installed (Tomáš
       Golembiovský).

   Other fixes
       In -o libvirt mode, support Windows Server 2019 (Pino Toscano).

       Fix Ubuntu Server conversions (Pino Toscano).

       Fix installation of qemu-ga by only installing arch-specific files in
       the guest (Pino Toscano).

       Delay installation of qemu-ga until after virtio-win drivers have been
       installed and rebooted (Tomáš Golembiovský).

       Save the log from running RHEV-APT installer to allow debugging (Tomáš
       Golembiovský).

       Check RHV cluster exists before trying to convert when using -o rhv-
       upload mode.  Also allows us to detect and reject various other
       conditions early.  (Pino Toscano).

       Label nbdkit sockets correctly for SELinux/sVirt (Martin Kletzander).

       You can use a block device as the Windows virtio driver ISO.

       Multiple fixes to RHV uploads: Set "DISKTYPE" field correctly when
       converting to RHV and VDSM.  Properly clean up on failure.  Display
       disk ID in error messages, and log script parameters, to help with
       debugging.  Multiple code cleanups.  (Nir Soffer).

       Support conversions to RHV in qcow2 format (Nir Soffer).

       Fix detection of disk status and failures after conversion to RHV
       (Daniel Erez).

       Cancel disk transfer and remove uploaded disks on failure of conversion
       to RHV (Pino Toscano).

       Images containing small holes (sparse regions) should now convert
       faster (Nir Soffer).

       The nbdkit-cacheextents-filter(1) is used to accelerate sources which
       have slow sparseness detection, primarily this means VMware sources
       using VDDK (Martin Kletzander).

       Require at least 100 free inodes on each guest filesystem before doing
       conversion, since lack of inodes could cause conversion failures (Pino
       Toscano).

       Fix osinfo output for CentOS 8 conversions (Pino Toscano).

       VMware tools are now removed from Windows guests automatically in most
       cases (Pino Toscano).

       -i ova mode no longer reads the whole input OVF into memory, but parses
       it off disk (Pino Toscano).

       When converting to OpenStack, we now wait up to 5 minutes (instead of
       60 seconds) for the Cinder volume to get attached to the conversion
       appliance, since in some cases it was taking a long time.

       If using a new enough version of nbdkit, virt-v2v logs should be much
       less verbose.

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

   Build changes
       Libguestfs ≥ 1.40 is required, it is now packaged and distributed
       separately from virt-v2v.  For developers you can use a locally built
       (and not installed) copy of libguestfs.

       Libvirt is now required to build virt-v2v.  Additionally you will
       require the OCaml bindings to libvirt (https://libvirt.org/ocaml/),
       although a copy is bundled for now (it will be removed later).  (Pino
       Toscano).

       Libosinfo is required to build virt-v2v.  It is used to query
       information about guest drivers.  (Pino Toscano).

       Fixes for OCaml ≥ 4.10.  The minimum version of OCaml required is still
       4.01, but may be increased to 4.05 in future.

       Test conversions of Debian 9 and Fedora 29 (Pino Toscano).

       Various fixes to srcdir != builddir (Pino Toscano).

       Remove gnulib modules not used by virt-v2v (Pino Toscano).

   Internals
       When converting SUSE guests, always try to install QXL driver (Mike
       Latimer).

       Two new modules (Nbdkit and Nbdkit_sources) factor out generic nbdkit
       operations and nbdkit source operations respectively.

       Format Python code to comply with PEP 8 / pycodestyle (Pino Toscano).

       Tests have been moved to the tests/ subdirectory, and manuals to the
       docs/ subdirectory.

   Bugs fixed
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1791802
           virt-v2v does not install qemu-ga on EL8 guest

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1791257
           update-crypto-policies command example is incorrect in
           virt-v2v-input-xen

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1791240
           [RFE] Make the rhv-cafile optional

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1785528
           Should remove info about "Remove VMware tools from Windows guests"
           in virt-v2v-input-vmware man page

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1746699
           Can't import guest from export domain to data domain on rhv4.3 due
           to error "Invalid parameter: 'DiskType=1'"

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1733168
           virt-v2v: Use scp -T in -i vmx -it ssh mode

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1723305
           Delete info "export PATH=/path/to/nbdkit-1.1.x:$PATH" in
           virt-v2v-input-vmware manual page

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1691659
           virt-v2v should show a message when qemu-guest-agent is installed
           in guest successfully during conversion

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1690574
           virt-v2v fails to import a guest while cannot find
           `file_architecture` for a file

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1680361
           [v2v][RHV][Scale] v2v Migration to RHV failed on timed out waiting
           for transfer to finalize

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1626503
           Unable to maintain static IP address configuration post VM
           migration

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1612653
           Guest has no disk after rhv-upload converting if target data domain
           has similar name with other data domain on rhv4.2

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1605242
           Update nbdkit info for vddk in v2v man page

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1584678
           On W2K12r2 rhev-apt does not run non-interactively, causing race
           when starting rhev-apt service from the command line

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1518539
           Macvtap network will be lost during v2v conversion

SEE ALSO
       virt-v2v(1).

       Previous release notes covering virt-v2v can be found in the libguestfs
       project: guestfs-release-notes-1.40(1).

AUTHORS
       Daniel Erez

       Richard W.M. Jones

       Tomáš Golembiovský

       Martin Kletzander

       Mike Latimer

       Nir Soffer

       Pino Toscano

       Ming Xie

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Red Hat Inc.

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