RHV: after upgrade to RHV 4.2, hosted-engine fails to start

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After upgrading to RHV 4.2, the HostedEngine VM will not start anymore.
  • VM start fails with the following error:
qemu-kvm: -device vmcoreinfo: vmcoreinfo device requires fw_cfg with DMA (code=1)

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.2

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