----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew@andrewklau.com>
> To: "Dan Ferris" <dferris@prometheusresearch.com>
> Cc: Users@ovirt.org

> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 4:53:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Disk state - Illegal?
>

> I was just wondering, did anyone ever find the root cause of this issue?

Hi,
Disk will be in illegal status in case that ovirt failed to initiate the delete task for it,
as the engine can't tell what's the exact disk state at this stage (on what phase the delete operation has failed) - the disk status is shown is illegal.
Therefore there might be many possible reasons, each issue that will fail the creation of the delete task would cause the disk to remain in that status (along permissions issues)
The disk deletion won't succeed till those issues would be resolved.

>
> Mine still seems to be doing the same thing, is it a permission issue or a
> bug?
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Dan Ferris < dferris@prometheusresearch.com
> > wrote:
>
>
> I was off today, so I just saw this. I will try it out tomorrow.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan
>
>
> On 9/25/2013 8:53 PM, Andrew Lau wrote:
>
>
>
> I noticed that too, I wasn't sure if it was a bug or just how I had
> setup my NFS share..
>
> There were three steps I did to remove the disk images, I'm sure there's
> a 100% easier solution..:
>
> I found the easiest way (graphically) was go to your
> https://ovirtengine/api/disks and so a search for the illegal disk.
> Append the extra ID eg. <diskhref="/api/disks/lk342- dfsdf...
>
> into your URL this'll give you your image ID.
>
> Go to your storage share:
> cd /data/storage-id/master/vms/ storage-id
> grep -ir 'vmname' *
> You'll find the image-id reference here too.
>
> Then the image you will want to remove is in the
> /data/storage-id/images/image- id
> I assume you could safely remove this whole folder if you wanted to
> delete the disk.
>
> To remove the illegal state I did it through the API so again with the

> URL above https://ovirtengine/disks/ disk-id send a DELETE using HTTP/CURL

>
> Again, this was a poor mans solution but it worked for me.
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Dan Ferris
> < dferris@prometheusresearch. com

> <mailto: dferris@ prometheusresearch.com >>wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have another hopefully simple question.
>
> One VM that I am trying to remove says that it's disk state is
> "illegal" and when I try to remove the disk it says that it failed
> to initiate the removing of the disk.
>
> Is there an easy way to get rid of these illegal disk images?
>
> Dan
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