Failed to start hosted-engine VM with error "libvirtError: unsupported configuration: Unknown controller type 'virtio-scsi' "

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Issue

  • Hosted-Engine VM fails to start with below error:
2019-03-08 13:31:56,868+0300 ERROR (vm/xxxx) [virt.vm] (vmId='xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx') The vm start process failed (vm:631)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 562, in _startUnderlyingVm
    self._run()
  File "/usr/share/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 2060, in _run
    self._connection.createXML(domxml, flags),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line 123, in wrapper
    ret = f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/utils.py", line 1006, in wrapper
    return func(inst, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3567, in createXML
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: unsupported configuration: Unknown controller type 'virtio-scsi'

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization-4.2

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