Cannot migrate VM due to "libvirtError: cannot fork child process: Cannot allocate memory" error
Issue
Trying to migrate a VM, migration fails. On source Host, vdsm log shows the error:
libvirtError: cannot fork child process: Cannot allocate memory
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1.
- Red hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 as Hypervisor.
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