vdsmd will not start during the boot process after a fresh install of the hypervisor

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • A RHEV hypervisor was freshly installed, but was not running the vdsmd service after the hypervisor had been rebooted. The following error is seen when trying to start the service manually:
# service vdsmd start
vdsm: libvirt already configured for vdsm                  [  OK  ]
Starting iscsid:
vdsm: Failed to define network filters on libvirt          [FAILED]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

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