Why Hosted Engine setup failed with error: "could not find capabilities for arch=x86_64".?

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Issue

  • There is following error in log file /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log:
Thread-72::ERROR::2017-04-18 20:12:04,027::vm::773::virt.vm::(_startUnderlyingVm) vmId=`vm_ID`::The vm start process failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 714, in _startUnderlyingVm
    self._run()
  File "/usr/share/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 2026, in _run
    self._connection.createXML(domxml, flags),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line 123, in wrapper
    ret = f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/utils.py", line 917, in wrapper
    return func(inst, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3777, in createXML
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: invalid argument: could not find capabilities for arch=x86_64 domaintype=kvm 
Thread-72::INFO::2017-04-18 20:12:04,032::vm::1330::virt.vm::(setDownStatus) vmId=`vm_ID`::Changed state to Down: invalid argument: could not find capabilities for arch=x86_64 domaintype=kvm  (code=1)

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.0
  • rhevm-appliance-4.0.20170307.0-1.el7ev.ova
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo) vdsm-4.18.24-3.el7ev.x86_64

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