Installation of RHV guest agent fails with on Windows with "should be performed only when running on RHEL6 type host" message"

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Issue

The RHV-Tools instalation fails on Windows with following message

Installation of RHEV-Tools on the Guest should be performed  only when running on RHEL6 type host.

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.x

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