P2V conversion fails for RHEV/RHV due to unsupported UEFI firmware for guests

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The p2v conversion fails on the physical system where UEFI firmware(BIOS) is supported.
  • The UEFI firmware is not supported for guests on RHEV 3.x, RHV 4.0, RHV 4.1 and RHEL < 7.3.

The conversion fails with following error:

virt-v2v: error: this guest cannot run on the target, because the target
does not support uefi firmware (supported firmware on target: bios)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.0
  • Red Hat Virtualizaiton 4.1
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux < 7.3

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