[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]

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:48:58AM +1200, Mark Abrahams wrote:
> Hi Guido
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  I'm not sure that there is a way to create LV
> targets with virt-clone?

I don't think so it'd be fine to convert this into a wishlist bug
asking to support that. 

We could extend --force to do just that.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> 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
>