Failure to migrate VM from VMware with "Missing essential config entry 'ethernet0.dvs.connectionId'"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to migrate a Virtual Machine from VMware:
virt-v2v: error: exception: libvirt: VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR: VIR_FROM_NONE: internal error: Missing essential config entry 'ethernet0.dvs.connectionId'

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2, 9.4
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14, 4.15
  • OpenShift Virtualization 4.14, 4.15
  • Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.5, 2.6

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