Migration of VM from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization fails with a configuration file syntax error

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • We are migrating a VM from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization using the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV).

  • The migration fails and virt-v2v reports an error like this:

    9virt-v2v: error: exception: libvirt: VIR_ERR_CONF_SYNTAX: VIR_FROM_CONF: configuration file syntax error: memory conf:74: expecting an assignment

Environment

  • OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.16
  • OpenShift Virtualization 4.16.2
  • Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.6.6
  • VM migrated from VMware

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