Permission denied error after running the virt-v2v command

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Issue

  • Running the following command gives a permission denied error:
# virt-v2v -ic qemu+ssh://root@kvmhost.example.com/system -o rhev -os storage.example.com:/exportdomain --network rhevm guest_name
guest_name.img: 100% [====================================================================================]D 0h32m07s
febootstrap-supermin-helper: open: /sbin/killall5: Permission denied
virt-v2v: Failed to launch guestfs appliance. Try running again with LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 for more information

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • virt-v2v

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