Openshift IPI installation on RHV-4.x failed with "Error: timeout while waiting for state to become 'up' (last state: 'down', timeout: 10m0s)"

Environment

• openshift container platform
  • 4.5
• Red Hat Virtualization
  • 4.4.1

Issue

• Openshift IPI deployment on RHV-4.4 get failed with below error for create cluster command:-

level=debug msg="module.masters.ovirt_vm.master[1]: Still creating... [10m40s elapsed]"
level=debug msg="module.masters.ovirt_vm.master[2]: Still creating... [10m40s elapsed]"
level=error
level=error msg="Error: timeout while waiting for state to become 'up' (last state: 'down', timeout: 10m0s)"
level=error
level=error msg="  on ../../tmp/openshift-install-213984312/masters/main.tf line 1, in resource \"ovirt_vm\" \"master\":"
level=error msg="   1: resource \"ovirt_vm\" \"master\" {"

• Master nodes VM on RHV-4.4 not coming up with due to the below error:-

VM <vm-name> is down with error. Exit message: unsupported configuration: Can't add USB input device. USB bus is disabled.

Resolution

• The master VM creation on RHV-4.4 is failing due to USB bus disabled for the VM's created with High Performance type.
• Change the vmType to server in install config before creating a cluster, and then create the cluster with a customized install-config file.

apiVersion: v1
baseDomain: example.com
controlPlane:
  name: master
  platform:
    ovirt:
      cpu:
        cores: 4
        sockets: 2
      memoryMB: 65536
      osDisk:
        sizeGB: 100
      vmType: server           
  replicas: 3

• For more inforamtion on the custom machine pools please refer Content from github.com is not included.upstream document

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Root Cause

• The issue is reported to the Engineering team and is being tracked in This content is not included.Red Hat Bugzilla#1871235.
• For more information or to also report this issue, please open a This content is not included.support case with Red Hat Support.

Diagnostic Steps

• Run the create cluster command with --log-level=debug option and see if the installer is getting time out.
• Check the events in RHV portal for the master VMs created in RHV by openshift installer.

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