VMWare virtual machine does not boot after being converted from a physical Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

After clone or convert a server from physical to virtual the system panics:

Kernel panic - not syncing

Environment

VMWare virtual machine
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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