You can not select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
47 lines
1.8 KiB
47 lines
1.8 KiB
From 696060ba5e89da4d60a7ee1187c8cfd298d50031 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
|
|
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
|
|
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 10:08:34 +0100
|
|
Subject: [PATCH] docs: Add a note about removal of VMware Tools on Windows
|
|
|
|
We use VMware's recommended method for removal, but we know from
|
|
experience that this rarely works. The alternate method being
|
|
proposed involves making very invasive changes to the Registry and
|
|
filesystem, which are inappropriate for virt-v2v to do and highly
|
|
risky. Therefore simply document this, with notes for the virt-v2v
|
|
user if they want to try the risky method.
|
|
|
|
Fixes: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-51169
|
|
Thanks: Yan Vugenfirer
|
|
Reported-by: Ming Xie
|
|
(cherry picked from commit c952f310c902e438a8b0b5240a4b486b698bede8)
|
|
---
|
|
docs/virt-v2v.pod | 15 +++++++++++++++
|
|
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
|
|
|
|
diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v.pod b/docs/virt-v2v.pod
|
|
index c173563b..6df9d88b 100644
|
|
--- a/docs/virt-v2v.pod
|
|
+++ b/docs/virt-v2v.pod
|
|
@@ -1248,6 +1248,21 @@ B<N.B.> Take care not to interrupt the automatic driver installation
|
|
process when logging in to the guest for the first time, as this may
|
|
prevent the guest from subsequently booting correctly.
|
|
|
|
+=head3 Removing VMware Tools from Windows guests
|
|
+
|
|
+Virt-v2v attempts to remove VMware Tools. For Windows guests this is
|
|
+supposed to happen during the first boot after conversion.
|
|
+
|
|
+We use VMware's recommended uninstallation method as that is the
|
|
+safest choice. However our experience has shown that this method
|
|
+usually fails. If so, VMware Tools must be removed by some other
|
|
+method.
|
|
+
|
|
+One possible method is described here:
|
|
+L<https://gist.github.com/broestls/f872872a00acee2fca02017160840624>
|
|
+You should carefully check this script since it makes very invasive
|
|
+changes to the Windows Registry and filesystem.
|
|
+
|
|
=head2 Free space for conversion
|
|
|
|
=head3 Free space in the guest
|