Why virt-sysprep is failing with error "inspect_os: fork: : Cannot allocate memory"
Issue
virt-sysprep
execution is failing with the error below.
ocaml_exn: 'inspect_os' raised 'Unix.Unix_error' exception
guestfsd: error: fork: : Cannot allocate memory
libguestfs: trace: inspect_os = NULL (error)
virt-sysprep: error: libguestfs error: inspect_os: fork: : Cannot allocate
memory
libguestfs: trace: close
libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x564e10bd30b0 (state 2)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2.
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