Conversion of guest VM's from VirtualBox to RHEV using virt-v2v fails with "error: libguestfs error: is_file: is_file_stub: path must start with a / character"

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Issue

  • Conversion of guest VM's from VirtualBox to RHEV using virt-v2v fails with "error: libguestfs error: is_file: is_file_stub: path must start with a / character"
  • virt-v2v command:
virt-v2v -v -x -i disk ./disk.img -o rhev -os RHEV:/domains/export --network rhevm

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • virt-v2v-1.28.1-1.55.el7.x86_64
  • libguestfs-1.28.1-1.55.el7.x86_64
  • qemu-kvm-rhev-2.3.0-31.el7_2.4.x86_64

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