RHEV: Unable to import VMware guest in RHEV 3.6

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to import VMware guests from ESXi hosts using Import Virtual Machines option in RHEV 3.6
  • Receives below error when importing a VM guest directly from VMware ESXi
## vdsm.log
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/vdsm/v2v.py", line 415, in _run
    self._import()
  File "/usr/share/vdsm/v2v.py", line 434, in _import
    cmd = self._create_command()
  File "/usr/share/vdsm/v2v.py", line 492, in _from_libvirt_command
    cmd = [_VIRT_V2V.cmd,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/utils.py", line 917, in cmd
    self.name)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: virt-v2v

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor release 7.2 (20160328.0.el7ev and previous release)

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