"failed to initialize vmci doorbell" message is shown in /var/log/messages
Issue
- The following message can be seen in
/var/log/messagesordmesg.
[4750142.185992] vmw_balloon: failed to initialize vmci doorbell
- What does it mean and why?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9
- vmw_balloon
- VM on VMWare Hypervisor
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