After importing of an OVF package from a VMware environment Virtual Machine Fails to Boot with STOP 7B or 'Device Does Not Exist'

After importing of an OVF package from a VMware environment, a Windows virtual machine fails with a STOP 0x0000007B error, or a Linux virtual machine does not boot because a device /dev/sda1 for example does not exist. On a Windows virtual machine a STOP 0x0000007B error occurs. On a Linux virtua...