OpenShift Virtualization: VM Operations fail after upgrade to 4.18 from 4.17.27 or above

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Management operations for pre-existing, running Virtual Machines (VMs) fail.
  • Actions such as live migration or a graceful VM shutdown are unresponsive.
  • The virt-handler logs on the worker nodes repeatedly show the error: unable to create virt-launcher client connection: can not add ghost record when entry already exists with differing socket file location.

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
    • 4.18
  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Operator
  • After upgrading the OpenShift Virtualization operator from 4.17.27 to 4.18.13 or below

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