From 5225ada5e7af57acb6ad1ddac7274b276c86d99e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 09:52:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] v2v: Document minimum free filesystem space requirements. (cherry picked from commit 5de06a3571d20d0fd483d26099cc49bc0f08ecf0) --- v2v/virt-v2v.pod | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod index bebe105..edfa5a0 100644 --- a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod +++ b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod @@ -1085,6 +1085,30 @@ same as the initial installation procedure. It is not necessary to remove the recovery console first. Following re-installation, the recovery console will work as intended. +=head1 FREE SPACE FOR CONVERSION + +Virt-v2v checks there is sufficient free space in the guest filesystem +to perform the conversion. Currently it checks: + +=over 4 + +=item Root filesystem or C + +Minimum free space: 20 MB + +=item C + +Minimum free space: 50 MB + +This is because we need to build a new initramfs for some Enterprise +Linux conversions. + +=item Any other mountable filesystem + +Minimum free space: 10 MB + +=back + =head1 RUNNING VIRT-V2V AS ROOT OR NON-ROOT Nothing in virt-v2v inherently needs root access, and it will run just -- 1.8.3.1