Why does virt-v2v give the error "qemu: too many IDE bus" while migration completes?
Issue
virt-v2vtool 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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