Error "'virtio1.0-block' or 'virtio1.0-net' is not supported by the 'kvm' virt driver" when trying to create or boot instances

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Instances created using Glance images with os_distro defined to rhel-7.x fail with one of the following error messages:
   UnsupportedHardware: Requested hardware `virtio1.0-block` is not supported by the `kvm` virt driver
   UnsupportedHardware: Requested hardware 'virtio1.0-net' is not supported by the 'kvm' virt driver

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10

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