Migration Plans Stuck in "Ready" Status while importing VMs from VMware using Migration Toolkit for Virtualization(MTV)
Issue
- Migration plans in Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV) do not progress after being started.
- The plan status is stuck in "Ready" even after initiating "start", with no error messages visible in the MTV console.
- The affected plans will show reconciliation failures in the forklift controller logs:
{"level":"error","ts":"2025-06-20 08:43:27.022","logger":"plan|bjpng","msg":"Reconcile failed.","plan":{"name":"myvm","namespace":"openshift-mtv"},"error":"Resource ref.Ref{ID:\"vm-77272\", Name:\"\", Namespace:\"\", Type:\"\"} not found.","
- The error messages found in the logs refer to a Virtual Machine that is not the same VM that the current plan is configured to migrate.
Environment
- Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.8.
- OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.
- OpenShift Virtualization 4.18.
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