RHEL: virsh unable to start VM
Issue
- Unable to start VM using virsh.
- It is looking for a disk image file that does not exist.
When starting a VM using virsh, the following error appears:
# virsh start <NAME>
error: Failed to start domain <NAME>
error: Unable to allow access for disk path /var/lib/libvirt/images/<DISK IMAGE>: No such file or directory
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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