What were you trying to do that didn't work?

Host SMBIOS information is not available on some machines

1. virsh sysinfo
   error: failed to get sysinfo
   error: unsupported configuration: Host SMBIOS information is not available

   What is the impact of this issue to you?

unable to manage VMs. 

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

libvirt

libvirt-8.0.0-23.2.module+el8.10.0+21972+d7867348.x86_64

qemu-kvm-6.2.0-50.module+el8.10.0+22027+db0a70a4.x86_64

1. cat /etc/os-release

NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"

VERSION="8.10 (Ootpa)"

ID="rhel"

ID_LIKE="fedora"

VERSION_ID="8.10"

PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"

PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 (Ootpa)"

How reproducible is this bug?:

Steps to reproduce

1. Install kvm packages on RHEL 8.10
2. execute virsh sysinfo
3.  

Expected results

xml result is displayed with host information. 

Actual results

error: failed to get sysinfo

error: unsupported configuration: Host SMBIOS information is not available