Why starting KVM VM is failing with "error shm_open failed, Permission denied"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After upgrading the RHEL to 7.3, KVM VM fails to run with error error shm_open failed, Permission denied

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
  • dracut-network-033-463.el7.x86_64

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