While starting a VM getting error as: "qemu: hardware error: Unknown device 'lsi53c895a' for bus 'PCI' "

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • While launching a VM via KVM getting the following error:
qemu: hardware error: Unknown device 'lsi53c895a' for bus 'PCI'
  • Command Used:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -cdrom rhel-server-6.4-x86_64-dvd.iso -drive if=scsi,file=rhel.img,boot=off

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 all versions

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