Oracle Linux: The libvirtd Service Status on KVM Host Shows Messages like "cannot open directory '/vm-pool': No such file or directory" (Doc ID 2903871.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 20, 2022

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Goal

The libvirtd service status on KVM host shows online but also shows messages like "cannot open directory '/vm-pool': No such file or directory"
even after destroying the pool using virsh command.

This document describes how to get rid of the above messages when you run systemctl status libvirtd command.
Here /vm-pool is the storage pool created for a particular Virtual Machine(VM)

Solution

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