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

[Mark Abrahams]

Hi Guido

Thanks for your reply.  I'm not sure that there is a way to create LV 
targets with virt-clone?

Regards, Mark.

On 26/04/14 23:19, Guido Günther wrote:
> 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