The virtqemud service fails to start due to "Invalid value for timeout" error

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Issue

The virtqemud.service fails to start due to the following error in messages

virtqemud[6660]: 2024-10-02 18:13:55.067+0000: 6660: info : libvirt version: 9.0.0, package: 10.3.el9_2 (Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>, 2023-08-24-06:08:50, )
virtqemud[6660]: 2024-10-02 18:13:55.067+0000: 6660: info : hostname: test
virtqemud[6660]: 2024-10-02 18:13:55.067+0000: 6660: error : main:868 : Invalid value for timeout
 systemd[1]: virtqemud.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
systemd[1]: virtqemud.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualization qemu daemon.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux9
  • KVM

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