Why importing VM from RHV to OpenShift Virtualization using MTV is failing with error "Inspection field ‘i_arch’ was ‘unknown’."

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Issue

  • While importing the VM from RHV to OpenShift Virtualization, the virt-v2v pod logs show below error:
2022-04-04T13:58:58.241260428Z virt-v2v: error: inspection could not detect the source guest (or physical
2022-04-04T13:58:58.241260428Z machine).
2022-04-04T13:58:58.241260428Z
2022-04-04T13:58:58.241260428Z Assuming that you are running virt-v2v/virt-p2v on a source which is
2022-04-04T13:58:58.241260428Z supported (and not, for example, a blank disk), then this should not
2022-04-04T13:58:58.241260428Z happen.
2022-04-04T13:58:58.241260428Z
2022-04-04T13:58:58.241260428Z Inspection field ‘i_arch’ was ‘unknown’.

Environment

  • OpenShift Virtualization 4.9.
  • Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.2.0.

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