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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Value of Global setting \"convert.vmware.instance.to.kvm.extra.params.allowed.list\" is not appened to the Virt-v2v tool","articleBody":"### problem\n\nValue of Global settng \"convert.vmware.instance.to.kvm.extra.params.allowed.list\" is not appened to the Virt-v2v tool\n\n### versions\n\nACS 4.22\n\n### The steps to reproduce the bug\n\n\n\n1. Enable the global setting \"convert.vmware.instance.to.kvm.extra.params.allowed\"\n\n2. Set the convert.vmware.instance.to.kvm.extra.params.allowed to a value say -x\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1637\" height=\"392\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aee3ae07-0192-40fd-9dab-72b33c0733ee\" /\u003e\n\n\n\n3. Import a vmware from kvm \n\n4. In the import from vmware form, do not select the option \"Pass extra parameters to the virt-v2v command on the conversion host\"\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1353\" height=\"143\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9e4b4a47-7c2b-480a-ba7b-84f91a33800d\" /\u003e\n\n\n5. Check the agent logs on the kvm host \n\nThe global setting value \"extra.params\" are not passed to the virt-v2v tool \n\n```\n2026-04-13 12:24:59,796 DEBUG [resource.wrapper.LibvirtConvertInstanceCommandWrapper] (AgentRequest-Handler-5:[]) (logid:565d9bad) Executing command [virt-v2v --root first -i ova /mnt/6f0e9b83-ab0d-3cc5-8ac6-189c672fe035/d1fa1750-df2d-44ba-90dc-1a39696137b5/i-2-16-VM/ -o local -os /mnt/6f0e9b83-ab0d-3cc5-8ac6-189c672fe035 -of qcow2 -on 5ed4eabd-058a-400e-a3c8-fa8c215bfb26 -v ].\n\n```\n\n\n\n6. The extra param value (-x) is only passed when it's mentioned in the \"import from vmware form\"\n\n\n```\n\n2026-04-13 12:31:32,208 DEBUG [resource.wrapper.LibvirtConvertInstanceCommandWrapper] (AgentRequest-Handler-4:[]) (logid:79bdffdc) Executing command [virt-v2v --root first -i ova /mnt/6f0e9b83-ab0d-3cc5-8ac6-189c672fe035/229a4c65-7ebd-42d4-90a2-e51fd2064973/i-2-16-VM/ -o local -os /mnt/6f0e9b83-ab0d-3cc5-8ac6-189c672fe035 -of qcow2 -on 1c906a30-86b1-442a-be0b-39f0cc65abcc -v x\n\n\n2026-04-13 12:34:02,504 DEBUG [resource.wrapper.LibvirtConvertInstanceCommandWrapper] (AgentRequest-Handler-1:[]) (logid:3ae94f9c) Executing command [virt-v2v --root first -i ova /mnt/6f0e9b83-ab0d-3cc5-8ac6-189c672fe035/b4bc39ad-3065-42c2-b9a7-eec1f6c87454/i-2-16-VM/ -o local -os /mnt/6f0e9b83-ab0d-3cc5-8ac6-189c672fe035 -of qcow2 -on 4addaa01-58bc-43a4-a9d9-b030be5dde46 -v -x ].\n\n```\n\n\n\u003cimg width=\"706\" height=\"190\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d620b451-e92e-467f-a130-09acff59a401\" /\u003e\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1365\" height=\"81\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/212950b0-a8d1-4d85-aff5-50326ce5b2bb\" /\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n### What to do about it?\n\nExpected behaviour \n\nThe extra parameter value mentioned in the global setting should get populated in the import instance form and admin should be able to select the parameters which could be passed on the the virt-v2v  tool \n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/kiranchavala","@type":"Person","name":"kiranchavala"},"datePublished":"2026-04-13T12:38:14.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/13012/cloudstack/issues/13012"}