[ovirt-users] Clone VM fails - could not create volume

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net> said:
> On oVirt 3.6.2, I tried to clone a VM, but got an error that the volume
> couldn't be created.  Checking the logs, I see (in vdsm.log on the SPM):
> 
> jsonrpc.Executor/2::ERROR::2016-02-11 09:50:24,459::dispatcher::76::Storage.Dispatcher::(wrapper) {'status': {'message': "Image is not a legal chain: (u'fa4d1802-6223-4800-8339-c194076cfb4b',)", 'code': 262}}
> 
> The VM I am trying to clone is thin-provisioned from a template; is it
> "legal" to clone such a VM, or is this a bug?

Hmm, weird; I also tried just copying the disk, and I could not.
Fiddling around, I forced SPM over to another node, and copy worked, so
I tried cloning again, and that worked too.  Guess something needed a
"reset".
-- 
Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>