Permission denied when attempting to use VDDK image for migration

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Issue

  • We are attempting to import VMware VM's using MTV
  • We have built the image and are attempting to use it in a migration plan, however, the vddk-validator pod is in init:error and we see the following in the vddk-validator/vddk-side-car container logs:
cp: cannot access '/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/bin64': Permission denied
cp: cannot access '/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/lib32': Permission denied
cp: cannot access '/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/doc': Permission denied
cp: cannot access '/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/lib64': Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/FILES' for reading: Permission denied
cp: cannot access '/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/include': Permission denied

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4.x
  • Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.9

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