Virt-p2v-make-disk

virt-p2v-make-disk Build the virt-p2v disk using virt-builder http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/virt-p2v-make-disk.1.html

virt-p2v-make-disk -o /dev/sdAAAA
virt-p2v-make-disk -o /dev/sdAAAA -v ubuntu-18.04

 virt-p2v-make-disk -o /dev/sdAAAA
[   2.1] Downloading: http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/debian-9.xz
[   2.6] Planning how to build this image
[   2.6] Uncompressing
[   7.7] Resizing (using virt-resize) to expand the disk to 14.7G


[1300.5] Opening the new disk
[1302.8] Setting a random seed
virt-builder: warning: random seed could not be set for this type of guest
[1302.9] Setting the machine ID in /etc/machine-id
[1302.9] Uploading: /tmp/tmp.OStDOjmHys/policy-rc.d to /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
[1302.9] Updating packages
[1505.8] Installing packages: libpcre3 libxml2 libgtk2.0-0 libdbus-1-3 openssh-client qemu-utils debianutils vim-tiny open-iscsi xorg xserver-xorg-video-all fonts-dejavu metacity network-manager network-manager-gnome dbus-x11 net-tools curl ethtool gawk lsscsi pciutils usbutils util-linux xterm less hwdata hdparm smartmontools
[1988.3] Uploading: /usr//share/virt-p2v/issue to /etc/issue
[1988.3] Uploading: /usr//share/virt-p2v/issue to /etc/issue.net
[1988.3] Making directory: /usr/bin
[1988.3] Uploading: /tmp/tmp.OStDOjmHys/virt-p2v to /usr/bin/virt-p2v
[1988.3] Changing permissions of /usr/bin/virt-p2v to 0755
[1988.3] Uploading: /usr//share/virt-p2v/launch-virt-p2v to /usr/bin/
[1988.3] Changing permissions of /usr/bin/launch-virt-p2v to 0755
[1988.3] Uploading: /usr//share/virt-p2v/p2v.service to /etc/systemd/system/
[1988.3] Making directory: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants
[1988.3] Linking: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/p2v.service -> /etc/systemd/system/p2v.service
[1988.3] Editing: /lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
[1988.3] Editing: /etc/systemd/logind.conf
[1988.3] Deleting: /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
[1988.3] Setting passwords
[1990.5] Finishing off
                   Output file: /dev/sda
                   Output size: 14.7G
                 Output format: raw
            Total usable space: 14.4G
                    Free space: 12.0G (83%)

export prefix=/usr/
virt-p2v-make-disk -o /dev/sda
virt-builder: warning: output device (/dev/sda1) is a partition.  If you 
are writing to a USB key or external drive then you probably need to write 
to the whole device, not to a partition.  If this warning is wrong then you 
can disable it with --no-warn-if-partition

export prefix=/usr/
virt-p2v-make-disk -o /dev/sda1
virt-builder: warning: output device (/dev/sda1) is a partition.  If you 
are writing to a USB key or external drive then you probably need to write 
to the whole device, not to a partition.  If this warning is wrong then you 
can disable it with --no-warn-if-partition

virt-p2v-make-disk -o /dev/sda
virt-p2v-make-disk: cannot find /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/virt-p2v/virt-p2v.xz

Related commands

• virt-v2v, virt-p2v, virt-p2v-make-disk, virt-builder, virt-v2v
• lsblk

See also

• KVM, Installation, QEMU, virsh, virtinst, libguestfs-tools, libvirt, qemu, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), MacVTap, Virtio, oVirt, KVM services, KVM networking, KVM graphics, CPU, KVM on ARM
• libguestfs-tools: virt-sysprep, virt-clone, virt-builder, virt-customize, virt-resize, virt-rescue, virt-sparsify, guestmount, guestfish, virt-inspector, virt-cat, virt-log, virt-df, virt-ls, virt-filesystems, virt-list-filesystems, virt-edit
• Clonezilla, ocs-sr