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OLVM : virt-v2v Migration Fails with the Error "umount: /sysroot/tmp: target is busy" (Doc ID 2821908.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 09, 2021

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.9 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [5.4.17] and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

While running virt-v2v to migrate an Oracle Linux 5.x or Red Hat 5.x Virtual Machine to OLVM the virt-v2v command fails with the following error:

commandrvf: umount /sysroot/tmp
umount: /sysroot/tmp: target is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
guestfsd: error: umount: /sysroot/tmp: umount: /sysroot/tmp: target is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
guestfsd: => umount_all (0x2f) took 0.11 secs

Changes

No changes, the same Hypervisor was used to migrate other Virtual Machines successfully with virt-v2v.
 

Cause

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