From 96dd0999819b0efdea763c66d11cbf99684cdbd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:35:36 +0000

Subject: [PATCH] p2v: Explain in the man page why the virt-p2v ISO is used.

(cherry picked from commit fab95a52bd307e6be699681de67134788687bf13)

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 p2v/virt-p2v.pod | 5 ++++-

 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/p2v/virt-p2v.pod b/p2v/virt-p2v.pod

index 2dfe0a4..6e7a77d 100644

--- a/p2v/virt-p2v.pod

+++ b/p2v/virt-p2v.pod

@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ L<virt-v2v(1)>.

 Normally you don't run the virt-p2v program directly.  Instead you

 have to boot the physical machine using the bootable CD-ROM, ISO or

 PXE image.  This bootable image contains the virt-p2v binary and runs

-it automatically.

+it automatically.  Booting from a CD-ROM/etc is required because the

+disks which are being converted must be quiescent.  It is not safe to

+try to convert a running physical machine where other programs may be

+modifying the disk content at the same time.

 This manual page documents running the virt-p2v program.  To create

 the bootable image you should look at L<virt-p2v-make-disk(1)> or

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