libvirt fails to unlink the image disks after creating VMs using virt-install: cannot unlink file 'FOO': Success

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Issue

  • Deleting an ISO used to install a VM fails
  • The error cannot unlink file '/var/lib/libvirt/images/xxx.iso': Success is recorded

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • Vitual machines using libvirt and KVM

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