Ubuntu Manpage: virt-v2v-release-notes - virt-v2v release notes for 2.4

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NAME

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

DESCRIPTION

These are the release notes for virt-v2v 2.4. This describes the major changes since 2.2.

Virt-v2v 2.4.0 was released on 5 January 2024.

New features
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 --key all:... selector to try the same key on all
devices.

Feature removed
Support for RHEL 3 conversions has been removed.

Other fixes
Conversions now set the "host-model" CPU in the output metadata, except where the source
hypervisor overrides this. The exception is -o qemu mode which uses -cpu host. (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 -o libvirt this
generates <clock offset="utc|localtime"/>. (Thanks Lee Garrett, Laszlo Ersek)

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

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

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

Multiple fixes to -o kubevirt mode. Also implement -oo compressed for this mode. (Thanks
Xiaodai Wang, Ming Xie)

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

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

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

Build changes
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.

Bugs fixed
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

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

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