On 3/5/21 11:04 AM, Samuel Thampy wrote:

Is there any additional info anyone who needs?

------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* Samuel Thampy <samjiks@hotmail.com> *Sent:* 03 March 2021 22:11 *To:* libvirt-users@redhat.com <libvirt-users@redhat.com> *Subject:* Issue I have a storage backend san disks, I have five servers which is KVM hosted guests.

I am looking to clone an image of a guest machine, so I can use a new VM form the image on a different server..

I am not sure what the best way. But when I do that, I get a memory error, and need to xfs_repair and damages the original machine.

My steps are

One vm machine on the same server

* dd create original vm to template.img * lvcreate -L 9G -n <vol-name> <pool> * dd template.img to /dev/<pool>/<vol-name> * virsh define <vm_name>.xml

another vm machine on the secondary server

* copy template.img to another server * lvcreate -L 9G -n <vol-name> <pool> * dd if=template.img  of=/dev/<pool>/<vol-name> * virsh define <vm_name>.xml

Nothing suspicious about these steps. So I'm suspecting that either template.img is corrupt, or it does not fit into LV, or maybe it's in use? I mean, if template.img is an image that's in use by a running domain it doesn't necessarily contain valid state. Michal