Boot hangs for qcow2 cloud image of RHEL8 with message "probing edd (edd=off to disable)... ok"

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • After creating a guest from a RHEL 8 qcow2 cloud image in KVM or RHEV, boot hangs on the following message:
probing edd (edd=off to disable)... ok

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
  • KVM or RHEV
  • qcow2 image built for OSP/cloud

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