Unable to import Windows Guest to Red Hat Virtualization or RHEL KVM, RHOCP.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to convert Windows OVA Virtual Machine to run on RHEL
  • Unable to convert Windows OVA Virtual Machine to run on RHV
  • Unable to import Windows VM from VMware
  • Getting error "The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state" when trying to import/convert a Windows VM.
  • Getting error "Guest conversion failed" while migrating VM from VMware to RHOCP

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8 and 9.
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12
  • OpenShift Virtualization 4.12

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