VM fails or snapshot creation with error: "Could not acquire resource. Probably resource factory threw an exception.: ()".
Issue
- Failed to start VM.
- Failed to create new snapshot for VM.
- Failed to move disk to another Storage Domain.
- The event and vdsm logs contain entries similar to the following:
ResourceAcqusitionFailed: Could not acquire resource. Probably resource factory threw an exception.: ()
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x
- Red Hat Virtualization 4.x
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