Alay Patel

cc @rthallisey

@dankenigsberg thanks for the review, accommodated all your suggestions!

@stu-gott I have addressed all the suggestions, PTAL

/cc for api change review

@xpivarc can we get a ok-to-test on the PR, it seems ready for CI

@matthewei Failure logs are found [here](https://storage.googleapis.com/kubevirt-prow/pr-logs/pull/kubevirt_kubevirt/10834/pull-kubevirt-check-tests-for-flakes/1745799290531352576/artifacts/k8s-reporter/pods/1_kubevirt_virt-controller-75ff7c575f-scmlf-virt-controller.log)

/test pull-kubevirt-unit-test /test pull-kubevirt-build

/test pull-kubevirt-unit-test /test pull-kubevirt-build

/test pull-kubevirt-unit-test /test pull-kubevirt-build

/test pull-kubevirt-build