Receiving error "failed to connect to the hypervisor" when trying to connect with virsh.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

While trying to connect to a hypervisor with virsh, it fails with the following error:

virsh -d4 -c qemu+ssh://USER@HYPERVISOR/system
The following error is returned
error: End of file while reading data: Input/output error
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.3

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