Unable to start KVM guest

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Issue

  • KVM guest fails to start with the following error.
Error starting domain: Unable to read from monitor: Connection reset by peer

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 44, in cb_wrapper
callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 65, in tmpcb
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1125, in startup
self._backend.create()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 686, in create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: Unable to read from monitor: Connection reset by peer

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
  • libvirt-0.10.2-46.el6_6.1.x86_64
  • virt-manager-0.9.0-28.el6.x86_64

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