While creating guests on a virtualization host system from satellite webui fails with "libvirtd: 11:49:04.204: error : unknown OS type hvm"

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Issue

  • Trying to create a virtual client on a host using satellite. It has failed to create the client.
  • On virtual host, 'rhn_check' gives below output,

    ..snip..
     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
    ..snip..
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.3

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