On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 08:46:58PM +0800, Ming Xie wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Sorry, I missed the email, I found out that the ova OS used by the > customer is win11 uefi, so I tried to reproduce the error today using > win11-uefi guest > > Steps: > 1. Convert win10-efi with UTC-8 timezone, win11-non-efi with UTC-8 timezone, > win11-efi with UTC-8 timezone, win11-efi with UTC+8 timezone, win2022-efi with > UTC-8 timezone from VMware by v2v, then check the installation status after > finishing conversion > > > Summary the test result as below: > > qemu-ga > > Win10-efi-UTC-8 PASS > Win11-non-efi UTC-8 PASS > Win11-efi-UTC-8 FAIL(can't find qemu-ga log in c:\) > Win11-efi-UTC+8 FAIL(can't find qemu-ga log in c:\) > Win2022-efi-UTC-8 PASS
Thanks for testing. The symptoms look the same as Lee reported. You're running virt-v2v from RHEL 9? If so I will prepare a scratch RHEL 9 package with the patches which we think might fix this, for testing. Rich. > Based on the above results, I think this problem is only caused by win11-efi > and has nothing to do with the time zone "UTC-8" > > The following are existing bugs about qemu-ga: > > Bug 1820144 - cannot install qemu-ga to some guests even if scheduled qemu-ga > installation task exist > Bug 2114809 - Can't install qemu-ga because of network address error after > converting MD-RAID1 win11 host by virt-p2v > Bug 1820152 - Fail to execute installation-qemu-ga.msi for win2012r2 and > win8.1-i386 guests > > > Thanks & Regards > Ming Xie > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 6:40 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 07:47:52PM +0200, Lee Garrett wrote: > > On 21.09.23 19:43, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > >So this is probably another instance or variation of the timezone > > >formatting problem (of schtasks). Which version of virt-v2v is this? > > >I want to check that you have a version with all the latest patches in > > >this area. > > > > It's 2.2.0-1 from Debian (12) bookworm. I've verified that it > > doesn't have any distro-specific patches. > > > > (https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/virt-v2v/-/tree/debian/master/ > debian > > would have a patches/series file in this case) > > The timezone fixes are: > > commit 597d177567234c3a539098c423649781424eeb6f > Author: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> > Date: Tue Mar 8 15:30:51 2022 +0100 > > convert_windows: rewrite "configure_qemu_ga" script purely in > PowerShell > > commit d9dc6c42ae64ba92993dbd9477f003ba73fcfa2f > Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> > Date: Fri Nov 12 08:47:55 2021 +0000 > > convert/convert_windows.ml: Handle date formats with dots instead of / > > They are all included in >= 2.0 > > I wonder if 597d177567 has a subtle flaw, or if we introduced a bug > somewhere when refactoring this code later. > > Lee: Do you have a theory about exactly what is wrong with the > schtasks date? Like what was it supposed to be, assuming it was 120 > seconds in the future from boot time, versus what it was set to: > > > Firstboot-qemu-ga 9/21/2023 4:04:00 PM Ready > > Could a date or time field have not been swapped or been corrupted > in some predictable way? > > The code we run is here: > > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs-common/blob/ > e70d89a58dae068be2e19c7c21558707261af96a/mlcustomize/inject_virtio_win.ml# > L571 > > Ming: this could be a bug affecting PST (UTC-8) guests, perhaps > somehow related to having a single digit month field? > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/ > ~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, > bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org > > -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com nbdkit - Flexible, fast NBD server with plugins https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
