Error in starting 'rhevm-guest-agent' service.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • As per the product documentation, Installed rhevm-guest-agent on RHEL 6.4 guest machine. Package installation went smooth without any error but the service fails to start with error indicating ovirtagent user not present on the system.
# service ovirt-guest-agent start
Starting ovirt-guest-agent: /bin/chown: invalid user: `ovirtagent:ovirtagent'
runuser: user ovirtagent does not exist

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.X
  • rhevm-guest-agent

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