"Guest agent is not responding: QEMU guest agent is not connected" reported repetitively on RHV hosts

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Issue

  • After updating a host, we are getting the following error every 5 minutes;
"libvirtd: 2018-08-29 10:05:39.242+0000: 4676: error : qemuDomainAgentAvailable:6946 : Guest agent is not responding: QEMU guest agent is not connected"

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.1, 4.2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.5 hosts;
    • vdsm-4.20.xx.x-x.el7ev.x86_64

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