Everything ended well - despite the warning 'do not shutdown' I powered off and powered on the VM.
This action allowed me to trigger a snapshot deletion (again) and it completed successfully.
Removing the disk of interest also completed successfully.
So, I got a happy ending.
Best Regards,
Strahil NikolovOn Jul 7, 2019 17:41, Strahil <hunter86_bg(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I think I'm getting closer.
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> It seems the snapshot of the VM did not get deleted and that might be the problem.
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> Can someone give me a hint how to remove the snapshot as I get an error:
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> Cannot remove Snapshot. The following disks are in ILLEGAL status: uyuni-OS-Disk1 - please remove them and try again.
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> Yet, removal of the disk cannot happen as I got:
> Cannot detach Virtual Disk. The disk is already configured in a snapshot. In order to detach it, remove the disk's snapshot.
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> This seems like 'Catch 22' .
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> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
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> On Jul 7, 2019 17:30, Strahil <hunter86_bg(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Hello All,
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>> I have changed my system layout and the old disk is removed (echo 1 > /sys/block/sdX/device/delete) from OS, but UI complains when I try to remove with the following error:
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>> Error while executing action: Cannot remove Virtual Disk. At least one of the VMs is not down.
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>> Is it a limitation of oVirt ? If so, I will open an enhancement entry in bugzilla.
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>> As far as I remember KVM allowed me to make such stuff without any issues so far.
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>> Best Regards,
>> Strahil Nikolov
