[Pkg-libvirt-commits] [libguestfs] 156/179: p2v: Explain in the man page why the virt-p2v ISO is used.

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commit fab95a52bd307e6be699681de67134788687bf13
Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
Date:   Sun Oct 26 19:35:36 2014 +0000

    p2v: Explain in the man page why the virt-p2v ISO is used.
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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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