How to prevent KVM from failing to boot with message "Cannot access storage file '/dev/disk/by-id/nvme': No such file or directory"

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Issue

  • VM will not start with virsh start <vm_name>

    'Cannot access storage file '/dev/disk/by-id/nvme': No such file or directory'
    

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x

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