Why RHV VM is failing to start with the error "failed to initialize spice server"

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Issue

  • A virtual machine in RHV is failing to start with the error below.
VM is down with eror. Exit message: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm:warning: Spice:reds.C:2902:reds_init_ssl: Could not use private key file: qemu-kvm: failed to initialize spice server

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.4.

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