virsh attach-disk fails after libvirt update

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Issue

After updating libvirt package and libvirtd is restarted, virsh command might fail until the guest OS is restarted.

virsh # attach-disk test /root/disk.iso hdc --type cdrom
error: Failed to attach disk
error: internal error missing disk device alias name for hdc

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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