virt-v2v fails with virt-v2v-0.9.1-4.el6

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Issue

Tried to convert a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 guest of Xen into the KVM format using virt-v2v, but it failed.

sh: sh: /sbin/mkinitrd: line 2019: /boot/boot/initrd-2.6.18-308.el5: No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Sys/VirtConvert/GuestfsHandle.pm line 201.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
virt-v2v
Xen PV guest

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