P2V Ubuntu source with nvme disks fails

[fthoele]

Hello,

I was attempting to convert a ubuntu device into a virtual machine using Converter 6.2.

Unfortunately it did not see my (definitely existing) boot partition, and after sifting through the worker logs the following line leads me to believe nvme source disks are not supported:

> [2018-07-27 17:36:55,709 INFO storage ]: Parted returned device with path: /dev/nvme0n1, type: 0

--> [2018-07-27 17:36:55,709 INFO storage ]: Skipping unsupported device with path: /dev/nvme0n1, type: 0

which to me seems like it would only be a semantic problem due to the other device name.

Is my asessment correct?

Any ideas on how to convert this?

Thanks in advance

[patanassov]

Hello

Converter doesn't recognise NVMe attached disks. It recognises /dev/hd*, /dev/sd*, and /dev/xvd* only.

As an eventual workaround I may suggest creating hard links named /dev/sd* to those partitions and try that way. Haven't tested it though.

Regards,

Plamen

[fthoele]

Thanks, sadly that did not work.

I worked around this now by imaging with dd and handmade vmdk-descriptor files. Has to reinstall grub/efi, but other than that it worked nicely.

[patanassov]

Good to hear that at least manual conversion worked.

So it worked just by reinstalling GRUB, w/o rerunning initramfs, patching fstab and network config files? You are lucky 🙂

Could you please attach the worker log from the failed conversion? I am going to log a task for NVMe support and would like to have a look at how sysinfo has handled it.

[yehoshua-sight]

hi, is this still relevant?

is the converter project abandoned or will there be support for nvme physical storages?