Virt-who configurations for Hyper-V failing with UnicodeDecodeError on Red Hat Satellite 6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Hyper-V virt-who configurations fail with the following error:

    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb2 in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.5.x
  • Virt-who 0.24.7-1
  • Microsoft Hyper-V

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