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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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1.8.3.1