Virt-who service fails with error "virt-who can't be started: no valid configuration found"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Virt-who service fails with below error:

# systemctl status virt-who.service
● virt-who.service - Daemon for reporting virtual guest IDs to subscription-manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/virt-who.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-07-11 09:30:57 CDT; 10s ago
  Process: 11200 ExecStart=/usr/bin/virt-who (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 11200 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Status: "virt-who can't be started: no valid configuration found"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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