[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#745873: Bug#745873: virt-clone onto LVM logical volume gives: ERROR Clone onto existing storage volume is not supported

[Guido Günther]

severity 745873 wishlist
thanks

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 07:37:22PM +1200, Mark Abrahams wrote:
> Package: virtinst
> Version: 0.600.1-3+deb7u1
> 
> When I create an LVM logical volume and use virt-clone to clone an existing
> LV to the new LV, I get this error:
> 
> virt-clone --original source-vm --name dest-vm --file=/dev/vg1/dest-vm-lv
> ERROR    Clone onto existing storage volume is not supported:
> '/dev/vg1/dest-vm-lv'
> 
> The LV was created with:
> lvcreate -L 50G -n dest-vm-lv vg1

Yeah but as far as I know the target needs to be created by virt-clone.
Cheers,
 -- Guido