Why does virt-v2v give the error "qemu: too many IDE bus" while migration completes?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • virt-v2v tool returns the following error while converting converting a Xen/KVM Virtual Machine into RHEV-M:
qemu: too many IDE bus

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (used as a XEN host/KVM Host)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x conversion server on which virt-v2v is run
  • The source XEN/KVM VM has 4 or more IDE disks attached to it.
  • virt-v2v

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