"virt-v2v" fails with "Failed to connect to any vmchannel implementation"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • "virt-v2v" fails with following error when converting a XEN guest or KVM guest

    linux commmand line: panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300 noapic acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0 guestfs_vmchannel=tcp:169.254.2.2:56896 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm

vmchannel: tcp:169.254.2.2:56896
connect: Network is unreachable

Failed to connect to any vmchannel implementation.
vmchannel: tcp:169.254.2.2

This is a fatal error and the appliance will now exit.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5
  • XEN
  • KVM

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