Wow, thank you for the in depth information. I will have to take some time to 
get this down.

From: Nux <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 5:39 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Cc: Cloudstack Users <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Unable to find the virtio-win package
Hello,

Sorry to see virtio-win is not available in your Ubuntu distro. I tested
a while back and the package was available, although I forget the
version I used.
Anyway, it's no big deal, can easily be worked around.
So these are the files the RPM installs (as of 08-02-2024), they are
basically drivers for Windows: https://pastebin.com/raw/WDH51ZYJ

I believe virt-v2v expects them in the same location, namely
/usr/share/virtio-win. There are multiple ways to do this. Examples:

1 - convert the RPM into a deb package and install it:
# download the rpm
wget
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.noarch.rpm
# install "alien" which can convert rpms to debs
apt -y install alien
# the conversion, can take a while
alien -d virtio-win.noarch.rpm
# install the resulting deb
dpkg -i virtio-win*.deb

2 - download and extract the RPM contents
# download the rpm
wget
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.noarch.rpm
# install the required software to inspect rpm packages
sudo apt -y install rpm2cpio cpio
# create a working directory and cd into it
mkdir virtio-rpm
cd virtio-rpm
# extract
rpm2cpio ../virtio-win*.noarch.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories
# copy the files in the right place
sudo cp -av usr/share/* /usr/share/

You need to do this on every hypervisor you expect to be running
virt-v2v.

HTH


On 2024-02-08 13:23, Cloudstack Users wrote:
> OK, for those of us that are not that familiar with linux, can you
> please let me know how to get that from the ISO to an installer on the
> KVM host? Thank you.
>
> From: Wei ZHOU <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 8:14 AM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Unable to find the virtio-win package
> Hi,
>
> you can download the ISO from
> https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/
>
> -Wei
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 at 14:10, Cloudstack Users
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are trying to install the virtio-win drivers on our Ubuntu 22.04
>> installation for our KVM hosts. When we run the command as specified
>> in the
>> documentation, we get an error.
>>
>>
>> https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/adminguide/virtual_machines.html#requirements-on-the-kvm-hosts
>>
>> For Debian-based distributions:
>>
>> apt install virtio-win
>>
>> # apt install virtio-win
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>> Reading state information... Done
>> E: Unable to locate package virtio-win
>>
>> Does anyone know if it uses a different package name that we need to
>> install?
>>
>>
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