RHV - Unable to connect to VM serial console over SSH

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Issue

  • Cannot access VM serial console over SSH.
  • Unable to get VM console using ovirt-vmconsole
  • The menu of "Available Serial Consoles" comes up fine, but selecting a VM fails with:
ssh: connect to host host.example.com port 2223: Connection refused

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.0
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.1

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