Storage Live Migration fails after creating snapshot

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Once the storage live migration begins the snapshot is created, but the task immediately fails out with little to no error messages.
  • Snapshot creation fails with the following error in vdsm.log
libvirtError: unsupported configuration: source for disk 'vdb' is not a regular file; refusing to generate external snapshot name

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2

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